Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:05:44 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: stacey@vickiandstacey.com Cc: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off" Message-ID: <47ADEB78.7010502@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080209173112.GI1149@crom.vickiandstacey.com> References: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <478E6EA3.9010504@uni-paderborn.de> <478E7A2E.7050403@clearchain.com> <20080116165557.92789ba3.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20080209173112.GI1149@crom.vickiandstacey.com>
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Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hi Bill! > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote: > >> In response to Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>: >> >>> Arne Schwabe wrote: >>>> Bill Moran schrieb: >>>>> I'm running 7 on an IBM Lenovo T61. >>>>> >>>>> I'm having some weirdness with the 802.11 card. It's a Intel Pro >>>>> 3945ABG, which appears to be supported by the wpi driver. Rebuilding >>>>> the kernel with wpi support causes the NIC to be detected and a >>>>> wpi0 interface is created, but when I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" I get >>>>> a message that the radio transmitter is turned off. >>>>> >>>>> ? >>>>> >>>>> I've searched through the BIOS and the card is enabled everywhere I can >>>>> find. Perusing both the ifconfig and the wpi man page hasn't clued me >>>>> in to what I can do to turn the radio on. My google searches have >>>>> turned up nothing but pointers to the wpi driver source code. >>>>> >>>>> Any advice/pointers will be welcome at this stage. :) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Only to rule out the obvious. Is the wlan switch on your notebook in >>>> the right position? >> Nice :) > > So was this your problem? > > I have the same notebook and have done the same procedure as you - enabling the hardware in > the kernel, but the switch on the front of the laptop is set to "On" - always.., > > However, although ifconfig show the card okay: > > $ ifconfig wpi0 > wpi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:1c:bf:5f:57:6f > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) > status: no carrier > ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) > authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bintval 0 > $ > > I get the following each time I try to ifconfig wpi0 up: > > Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw > Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw' > Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver > Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw > Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw' > Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver Did you set the necessary flags in your loader.conf? I'm talking about: legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
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