ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Vince Hoffman <jhary at unsane.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an ipw2200 bg. I can't make it work under FreeBSD 7 on AMD64.
>>
>> This is the output of pciconf -lv
>>
>> none0 at pci0:0:5:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x27028086 chip=0x42208086
>> rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
>>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>>     device     = 'MPCI3B  driverIntel PRO/Wireless 2200BG'
>>     class      = network
>>
>> dmesg shows the following:
>>
>> pci0: <network> at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
>>
>> I tried to instal the iwi-firmware from ports:
>>
>
> Have you read the manpage for iwi?

No, I tried with iwi-firmware and iwicontrol and none of them existed.

> no ports are needed the firmware is now in the base system, Just add the
> entries as specified in this snippet from man iwi

So... shouldn't this port be removed?

>
>  Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
>     following lines in loader.conf(5):
>
>           if_iwi_load="YES"
>           wlan_load="YES"
>           firmware_load="YES"
>
>     In both cases, place the following lines in loader.conf(5) to load the
>     firmware modules:
>
>           iwi_bss_load="YES"
>           iwi_ibss_load="YES"
>           iwi_monitor_load="YES"
>
> and
>
>  This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.  For
> the loaded firmware to work the license at
>     /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE must be agreed to and the
> follow-ing line be added to loader.conf(5):
>
>           legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
>

I'll try it. But AFAIK, I have to recompile the kernel cause the
"device iwi" line is missing.

Am i right?

Thanks in advance

>
>
> regards,
> Vince
>> ===>  iwi-firmware-2.4_8 is configured with iwicontrol(8) which you
>> don't need, use 'make rmconfig' and uncheck CONTROL.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware.
>>
>> I tried the suggested workaround, but I got:
>>
>> ===> No user-specified options configured for iwi-firmware-2.4_8
>>
>> I tried with pkg_add -r iwi-firmware-2.4_8 and I got
>>
>> Error: FTP Unable to get
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7.0-release/Latest/iwi-firmware-2.4_8.tbz:
>> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> pkg_add: unable to fetch
>> 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7.0-release/Latest/iwi-firmware-2.4_8.tbz'
>> by URL
>>
>> My ports are up to date (cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org)
>>
>> So... How can I make the wireless card work?
>>
>> Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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