wpi0: fatal firmware error

Victor Balada Diaz victor at bsdes.net
Wed Oct 10 09:36:48 UTC 2012


CCing Benjamin Close as he ported wpi(4) driver to FreeBSD.

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to setup my wireless on FreeBSD 9.0-p3 amd64 and i get the following
> error:
> 
> wpi0: fatal firmware error
> 

[...]

> rc.conf config:
> wlans_wpi0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP ssid testwifi country ES"

I've found the problem. If i specify country ES it fails to load the firmware,
but if i don't touch country and leave it as default (US) it works as expected.

Is it fixable or should a note be added to BUGS section of the man page?

I can create a man page patch if needed.

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