Problem (maybe a solution) loading iwi firmware: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 28 July 2006 11:26, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 July 2006 14:28, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> >> There is some development, I'm not sure if it has been imported into the
> >> source tree yet,
> >>
> >>   http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/
> > 
> > Yes, it is in -current and I believe -stable now, and this just works fine 
> > with the iwi-firmware-kmod port.
> > 
> > In short, upgrade to 6.1-stable, install the iwi-firmware-kmod port, and 
> > everything should Just Work(tm).  It does here on my laptop (albeit 
running 
> > 7-current).
> 
> The new_iwi has not been backported to -stable yet. I tried to use just
> the iwi-firmware-kmod port, disabling dhcp on that interface and
> configuring manually, loading modules in order: firmware, iwi_bss and
> if_iwi.

If it uses firmware_get() it qualifies as new_iwi for now.  You should not 
have to explicitly load iwi_bss, firmware(9) will do that for you.

> Note the interupt storm when the module is first loaded, but not the
> second time.

That's because it only logs a message once.

-- 
John Baldwin