iwi0: could not load firmware

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 01:08:16 PDT 2007


On 10/29/07, Oliver Peter <hoschi at mouhaha.de> wrote:
> % uname -srm
> FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 i386
>
> What did I do wrong?
>
> dmesg output:
> iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xa0202000-0xa0202fff irq 11 at
> device 2.0 on pci4
> iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:16:6f:c3:e3:48
> iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> iwi_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in
> /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/.
> iwi_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in
> /boot/loader.conf.
> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (iwi_bss_fw, 0xc4c535a0, 0) error 1
> firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss
> iwi0: could not load firmware
>
> I tried to bring up the interface with
>
>  # ifconfig iwi0 up
>
> And I have the following entry in /boot/loader.conf
>
>  # intel/wireless
>  set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
>  if_iwi_load="YES
>
Remove the word 'set ', as it is not needed in
/boot/loader.conf.

Scot


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