FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Leslie Jensen]

Daniel Underwood skrev:
> I'm having trouble getting wireless to work on my FreeBSD laptop.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. My wireless device is Intel
> PRO/Wireless 2200BG.
> 
> After typing "ifconfig iwi0", I get the following:
> 
> iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:16:6f:91:d5:58
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
>         authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF bmiss 10
>         scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7
>         roam:rate11b 1 roaming MANUAL bintval 0
> 
> Now I (repeatedly) receive the following error messages in my xconsole:
> 
> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> iwi0: could not load firmware
> 
> My /etc/rc.conf contains:
> 
> ifconfig_iwi0="WPA DHCP"
> 
> My /boot/loader.conf contains:
> 
> wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
> wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> 
> After typing "kldstat", I receive the following (note that iwi_bss.ko exists):
> 
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   18 0xc0400000 97f830   kernel
>  2    1 0xc0d80000 6a2c4    acpi.ko
>  3    1 0xc3e3c000 22000    linux.ko
>  4    1 0xc408f000 6000     i915.ko
>  5    1 0xc40a2000 f000     drm.ko
>  6    1 0xc4280000 f000     if_iwi.ko
>  7    1 0xc42ae000 30000    iwi_bss.ko
> 
> Please help me figure this out. I've been trying to get wireless to work
> for 3 days now, and I've searched and searched for a solution. Let me
> know if you need more information.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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Have you created a wpa_supplicant.conf file

http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

/Leslie