Problem loading firmware, iwi driver

Yousef Raffah yraffah at savola.com
Sun Jul 23 17:33:38 UTC 2006


Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have a problem loading the driver for Intel 2200BG Wireless NIC,
> loading modules if_iwi and iwi_bss I see the following in dmesg:
>
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xb0107000-0xb0107fff irq 10 at
>       device 10.0 on pci6
> iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:16:6f:93:c9:75
> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> iwi0: could not load firmware
>
> last two lines repeat. The firmware file in /boot/firmware ...
>
> Kernel is 6.1-STABLE, source cvsup'ed three days ago. Problem occurs
> with GENERIC as well as custom kernel config.
>
> I have tried both installing iwi-firmware-kmod and building from this
> source:
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/20060315.both.tgz
>
> and
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/new_iwi/20060418.both_nofw.tgz
>
> (iwiNG) But no difference.
>
> Any help on how to solve this is appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Erik
>
>   
Did you try iwicontrol iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss ?

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Sincerely,

Yousef Adnan Raffah
Security Officer
The Savola Group

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