Drivers and firmware for an Intel WiFi 1000 series network card

[Jesse Smith]

>
> Vince,
>
> Thank you for the quick reply. This seems to put me on the right
track.
> I loaded the files you suggested and my wireless card now shows up in
> the output from ifconfig. I'm thinking this is a good sign.
>
> Unfortunately when I bring up the interface and scan for networks with
> it, it doesn't find my wireless LAN. I also notice the light on my
> laptop indicating the wireless device is working hasn't come on. I'm
> thinking maybe the driver is loaded, but not the firmware? At least
> based off my experience with Linux, that's my assumption.
>
> Where should I go to trouble-shoot this?

> How familiar with wireless on freebsd are you? I will assume you are
> running 8.x if you are running 7.x or lower things work a little
> differently.
> for 8.x you need to create the wlan device and associate it with the
> physical interface, for iwn this would be
> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0
> then
> ifconfig wlan0 up scan
> to scan for nearby access points.
> The firmware for the card is contained in the iwnXXXXfw module you 
> have
> loaded.
>
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
> has a full description.
>
> If you have done this already and are still having problems someone
> more familiar with the iwn driver will probably have to help I'm 
> afraid.
> possibly try posting the output of ifconfig -a and the dmesg output 
> from when you loaded the modules.


> Vince


Thanks again. It turns out I was missing the "ifconfig wlan0 create"
step after loading the appropriate modules. (My wireless experience on
FreeBSD up to this point has been nil.) Putting it all together I've
managed to successful scan local networks.

I appreciate your efforts to get me through this.

Jesse