FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Fernando Apesteguía
fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 21:20:17 UTC 2009
2009/4/23 Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com>:
> [SOLVED]
>
> Thanks for the help, folks. It works fine now.
I wasn't that lucky :)
I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12
This is my loader.conf configuration:
legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"
And in my kernel config I have:
device pci
device wlan # 802.11 support
device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support
device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support
device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support
device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm
device wlan_scan_ap # 802.11 AP mode scanning
device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning
device iwi # For Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg
device firmware # firmware assist module
This is the output of ifconfig:
iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:0e:35:fd:aa:0f
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan
bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 bintval 0
After seting debug.iwi=1 this is what I get when I try to bring the
interface up:
$ ifconfig iwi0 up
iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0
enter FW state 1
firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
iwi0: could not load firmware
exit FW state 1
iwi_newstate: INIT -> INIT flags 0x0
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
>
> 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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