FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Daniel Underwood]

[SOLVED]

Thanks for the help, folks. It works fine now.

2009/4/22 Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com>:
> Thanks Patrick.  After updating my /boot/loader.conf, it now contains:
>
> legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
> iwi_bss_load="YES"
> iwi_ibss_load="YES"
> iwi_monitor_load="YES"
> wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
> wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
>
> I no longer receive the error message about failing to load the
> firmware. However, when I enter "ifconfig iwi0 up scan", I receive the
> following in the xconsole:
>
> iwi0: firmware stuck in state4, resetting
>
> Any idea what that means, or what state4 is?  (Sorry, I'm very new to FreeBSD.)
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> 2009/4/22 Patrick Lamaizière <patfbsd at davenulle.org>:
>> Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:41 -0400,
>> Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> After re-reading man iwi, I noticed that it says:
>>>
>>> "This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. You
>>> need to obtain iwicontrol(8)  from the IWI web page listed below to
>>> accomplish loading the firmware before ifconfig(8)  will work."
>>>
>>> I'm going to look into this. Sounds like this may be the problem. Do
>>> you think so?
>>
>> No, before FreeBSD 7 you needed to download the firmware.
>> There is a port in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware but it is only for
>> FreeBSD < 7
>>
>> You don't need anything on FreeBSD 7.x and you it seems you are not
>> using the right manual page for 7.1:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html
>>
>> Regards.
>>
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