iwi0: could not load firmware

Guy Helmer ghelmer at palisadesys.com
Tue Oct 30 06:00:57 PDT 2007


Oliver Peter 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
>   
Shouldn't that be:

legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
if_iwi_load="YES"

Guy

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Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Chief System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.



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