Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:51:50 +0000 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de>, stacey@vickiandstacey.com Subject: Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off" Message-ID: <20080209185150.GD1387@chimera.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <47ADEB78.7010502@bsdforen.de> 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> <47ADEB78.7010502@bsdforen.de>
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Hello Dominic,
Good to hear from you.,
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hi Bill!
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
<snipped>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>>
<snipped>
> >>>> 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
Yep:
$ cat /boot/loader.conf
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
$
For reference:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD <snipped>.<snipped> 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0:
Sun Feb 3 15:42:51 GMT 2008
<snipped>@<snipped>:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STEEL amd64
$
Thanks for responding, if I need to provide more info, please let me know.
Regards,
S Roberts
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