FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Daniel Underwood]

Yes, and my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf contains the following (actual
psk not shown):

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=1

network={
  ssid="neuralnet"
  psk="..."
}


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>