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Subject: Re: 6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re
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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