From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 17:45:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C02106566C for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:45:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcurley@MIT.EDU) Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690118FC08 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:45:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcurley@MIT.EDU) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id n0UHZG51025609; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:35:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (c-71-232-50-230.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [71.232.50.230]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as jcurley@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id n0UHZFMm025367 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:35:16 -0500 (EST) From: Curley To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:33:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901301233.07305.jcurley@mit.edu> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Cc: Subject: FreeBSD 7.1: iwi problem with intel 2200 pro wireless card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:46:00 -0000 Dear FreeBSD-questions Group, I recently installed freeBSD 7.1 on an IBM Thinkpad T42 (types 2378). The system will not connect to the internet wirelessly using the Intel 2200 pro wireless card. The problem is described in the following and some relevent files (/var/log/messages, /var/run/dmesg.boot, /boot/loader.conf) are pasted below my signature. Thanks in advance for any help configuring this feature. When I attempt to connect to the internet using the 'ifconfig iwi0 up scan' command the terminal gives no response and in /var/log/messages, 'iwi0: could not load main firmware iwi_bss' is given as an error. Ocassionally, after a system reboot the wireless card will connect to a local network. However attempting to change wireless networks causes the wireless to crash. Therefore, I do not think the problem is hardware based. Additionally, I have checked the hardware using Windows XP device manager (Windows XP is installed on a separated hard drive). The wireless works fine on Windows XP. I have looked through message boards without luck finding a solution for my system. Please let me know if this question ought to be sent elsewhere, I am a new user. Thanks again for taking the time to read this. Best Regards, John from /var/log/messages: (system response to the command "ifconfig iwi0 up scan") Jan 30 01:39:02 JohnsThinkpad kernel: iwi0: timeout processing command blocks for iwi_bss firmware Jan 30 01:39:02 JohnsThinkpad kernel: iwi0: could not load main firmware iwi_bss ------------------------------- from /var/run/dmesg.boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC module_register: module uhub/umass already exists! Module uhub/umass failed to register: 17 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (1498.74-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x695 Stepping = 5 Features=0xa7e9f9bf Features2=0x180 real memory = 2146828288 (2047 MB) avail memory = 2091171840 (1994 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0505): Optional field "Gpe1Block" has zero address or length: 0 102C/0 [20070320] acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi_ec0: port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, 7ff00000 (3) failed Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_lid0: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: on hostb0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 vgapci0: port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff,0xc0100000-0xc010ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 uhci0: port 0x1800-0x181f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: port 0x1820-0x183f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: on usb1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: port 0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci2: [ITHREAD] usb2: on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: on usb2 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: mem 0xc0000000-0xc00003ff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci0: [ITHREAD] usb3: EHCI version 1.0 usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3: on ehci0 usb3: USB revision 2.0 uhub3: on usb3 uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 cbb0: mem 0xb0000000-0xb0000fff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 cbb0: [ITHREAD] cbb1: mem 0xb1000000-0xb1000fff irq 11 at device 0.1 on pci2 cardbus1: on cbb1 pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1 cbb1: [ITHREAD] em0: port 0x8000-0x803f mem 0xc0220000-0xc023ffff,0xc0200000-0xc020ffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2 em0: [FILTER] em0: Ethernet address: 00:16:41:17:29:2d iwi0: mem 0xc0214000-0xc0214fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:4c:84:63 iwi0: [ITHREAD] isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1860-0x186f at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] pci0: at device 31.3 (no driver attached) pcm0: port 0x1c00-0x1cff,0x18c0-0x18ff mem 0xc0000c00-0xc0000dff,0xc0000800-0xc00008ff irq 11 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: [ITHREAD] pcm0: pci0: at device 31.6 (no driver attached) acpi_tz0: on acpi0 atkbdc0: port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio0: [FILTER] sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled battery0: on acpi0 acpi_acad0: on acpi0 acpi_ibm0: on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 est0: on cpu0 p4tcc0: on cpu0 sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xcffff,0xd0000-0xd0fff,0xd1000-0xd1fff,0xdc000-0xdffff,0xe0000-0xeffff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0 ppc0: at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: on ppc0 ppbus0: [ITHREAD] ppi0: on ppbus0 plip0: on ppbus0 plip0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ppc0: [ITHREAD] sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1498736135 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad0: 152627MB at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CDRW at ata1-master UDMA33 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ------------------------------------------ from /boot/loader.conf: #IBM ACPI Config acpi_ibm_load="YES" #sound driver snd_ich_load="YES" #WiFI Config if_iwi_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" firmware_load="YES" iwi_bss_load="YES" iwi_ibss_load="YES" iwi_monitor_load="YES" legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 #USB FlashDrive umass_load="YES" -------------- output of dmesg | grep iwi: iwi0: mem 0xc0214000-0xc0214fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:4c:84:63 iwi0: [ITHREAD] ------------------ output of sysctl dev.iwi.0.radio: dev.iwi.0.radio: 1