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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:16:16 -0700
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Kirk Davis <Kirk.Davis@epsb.ca>
Cc:        "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re boots
Message-ID:  <42E718A0.3010201@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <04C71268DFDAA8499EC1A248A44B6A2B34BFFF@Exchange21.EDU.epsb.ca>
References:  <04C71268DFDAA8499EC1A248A44B6A2B34BFFF@Exchange21.EDU.epsb.ca>

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Kirk Davis wrote:
> Ahh... You are right Sam.   I was trying to think of all the things I did to
> get it working and I did forget the wlan_tkip module that I load at startup.
> 
> 
> Yes,  The main problem I had with the iwi driver was the firmware.  Is it
> possible for someone to MFC the devd.conf changes to support this card?
> Once you let devd handle the firmware then dhclient works a lot better for
> roaming.

The firmware isn't in the base system so modfiying devd.conf doesn't 
make sense.  I believe it's sufficient to load the firmware from a 
start_if.iwi0 script in which case the port/package that has the 
firmware could set this up for you.

	Sam



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