Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:25:19 +0200 (EET) From: freebsd@juiceless.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: WLAN not detected on Acer TM 292ECLi Message-ID: <60202.213.243.138.177.1138656319.squirrel@ssl.nebula.fi>
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Hi, anyone having WLAN working on an Acer Travelmate 290E? It doesn't seem to be detected at all on my laptop, which is a model 292ECli. As a Centrino laptop, it should have a Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG built in. I installed iwi-firmware from ports, built a custom kernel (world and kernel from -STABLE today) and checked that I have "options pci" and "options wlan" in it, just as man iwi says. I tried to load iwi as module with kldload, at boot time by setting if_iwi_load="YES" to loader.conf, and also tried to build it statically into the kernel. At no time, I get iwi mentioned in dmesg. kldstat says it is loaded when I load it dynamically. Also, the firmware is not found in /usr/local/libdata as mentioned on the iwi-firmware webpage at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html I'm not by my laptop right now so I can't check, but somewhere I read that it is installed in /boot/firmware instead? But the mystery is, why doesn't the adapter get detected at all? Something I've missed? Anyone have ideas? Otherwise FBSD 6.0 is a great release - the first one I have successfully installed on the laptop. I've seen others having problems with Acer 2XX laptops also, so I recommend installing 6.0, and enabling ACPI when booting. Without, at least my panics, but acpi_load="YES" in loader.conf to the resque! --Ville
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