From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 22 20:15:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BA51065674 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA528FC19 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:15:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD905E194; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:15:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.749 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.749 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.851, BAYES_00=-2.599, SPF_PASS=-0.001] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 4edZjTU2NTCx; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:15:14 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from blj01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28B95E3A2; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:15:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <49EF7AD1.5020709@eskk.nu> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:15:13 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090406) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Underwood References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:15:20 -0000 Daniel Underwood skrev: > I'm having trouble getting wireless to work on my FreeBSD laptop. > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. My wireless device is Intel > PRO/Wireless 2200BG. > > After typing "ifconfig iwi0", I get the following: > > iwi0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:16:6f:91:d5:58 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > status: no carrier > ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) > authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF bmiss 10 > scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 > roam:rate11b 1 roaming MANUAL bintval 0 > > Now I (repeatedly) receive the following error messages in my xconsole: > > firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss > iwi0: could not load firmware > > My /etc/rc.conf contains: > > ifconfig_iwi0="WPA DHCP" > > My /boot/loader.conf contains: > > wlan_scan_ap_load="YES" > wlan_scan_sta_load="YES" > wlan_wep_load="YES" > wlan_tkip_load="YES" > wlan_ccmp_load="YES" > > After typing "kldstat", I receive the following (note that iwi_bss.ko exists): > > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 18 0xc0400000 97f830 kernel > 2 1 0xc0d80000 6a2c4 acpi.ko > 3 1 0xc3e3c000 22000 linux.ko > 4 1 0xc408f000 6000 i915.ko > 5 1 0xc40a2000 f000 drm.ko > 6 1 0xc4280000 f000 if_iwi.ko > 7 1 0xc42ae000 30000 iwi_bss.ko > > Please help me figure this out. I've been trying to get wireless to work > for 3 days now, and I've searched and searched for a solution. Let me > know if you need more information. > > Thanks, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Have you created a wpa_supplicant.conf file http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html /Leslie