FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

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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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