Can't load firmware

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm facing some problems with my IPW2200 NIC. It seems I can't load
>>> the firmware (from system log):
>>>
>>> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
>>>
>>> Both if_ipw and ipw_bss modules are loaded.
>>>
>>> This very same computer works fine with linux, including loading the firmware.
>>
>> Have you set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf?
>
> No. I'm aware of the iwi man page, but after I did that I got a
> message in /var/log/messages complaining about the
> legal.intel_ipw.license_ack variable, not the one specified in the iwi
> man page.
>
> I set the last one to 1 but I got the firmware loading problem. If
> this has changed, I suppose it should be fixed in the documentation
> IMHO.
>
> Any more ideas? Any debugging hints?
>
> Thanks in advance

Oops, sorry I forgot: I'm using 7.0 RELEASE.

Thanks

>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>