FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com> wrote:
> They should be, yes. I would try loading the modules (kldload) just to
> be sure. If loading the modules doesn't fix things, then it's safe to
> assume they were compiled in kernel. (But then again, I'm certainly
> not an expert in this area.)

I can't load the modules because they don't exist as modules. However,
the wireless card is detected, so the driver should be in-kernel (in
opposition to loading the GENERIC kernel which lacks the iwi driver
and my NIC is not shown by ifconfig).

The debug.iwi=1 doesn't help much. It just says it can't load the
firmware, but it doesn't give any clues about the reason.

Any ideas?

PS: jut out of curiosity, where is the firmware in the filesystem? Is
it also compiled in-kernel?

Thanks in advance.

>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Fernando Apesteguía
> <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Also, when you enter kldstat, do you see these?
>>>
>>> iwi_bss.ko
>>> iwi_ibss.ko
>>> iwi_monitor.ko
>>> if_iwi.ko
>>
>> No. Shouldn't they be in-kerne?
>>
>> I compiled my own kernel with the settings I posted in my previous
>> mail, including device firmware, iwi, wlan, etc.
>>
>> Cheers
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
>>> <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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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