Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:55:48 +0100 From: "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3945ABG wireless problems Message-ID: <20090109075548.GA8216@desmo.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net>
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Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting "wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off" pushing 802.11 button on laptop -> Turning OFF ------------------------------- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: detached pushing 802.11 button again -> Turning ON ----------------------------------------- Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x03f0 product 0x171d bus uhub0 Jan 9 07:59:13 desmo kernel: ugen0: <Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on uhub0 ifconfig wpi0 up ---------------- Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: NEWSTATE:INIT Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Resetting the card - clearing any uploaded firmware Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Loading microcode size 0x384 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: firmware status=0xffff0000, val=0x40400000, result=0x40400000 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: Status Match! - ntries = 0 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: microcode alive notification version 10e02 alive 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: state changed to 1 Jan 9 07:58:51 desmo kernel: wpi0: Radio transmitter is switched off I notice that I didn't have the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE, so I grabbed it from http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.tar.gz /boot/loader.conf includes the following ---------------------------------------- if_wpi_load="YES" wlan_load="YES" wlan_amrr_load="YES" firmware_load="YES" wpifw_load="YES" legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 What am I doing wrong here....?? Many thanks, Alain
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