From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 22 19:27:59 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 DD4151065676 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djuatdelta@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710428FC27 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djuatdelta@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f33so70885fkf.11 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:27:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=agXMHp3EehkPblOARektxzXd0lKxt2mN5wPCk7vlZ3M=; b=g+O67LbvDt/x/R9WgQciEPEZX4tB96RSTbn4OEEKgcHuvlX57pn6JyxekzIvhlbbo7 RUAJO+40FhC85Q/1v8BQgZe3eL3BKgU30Witk6n9fBtRwT/jOCQNTv405rzFo+1cdkUL qViCaE9q2IVYi8PNWhDOlszAbw9UMO0hdi61c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=MvvNHbhBii44mlzn1IQoxFsCy9Cycr+Vt/56cilS478agy6nCxJj8fkKN1id/wruS5 D1GSkQ5ytwjuZjkm/uLWpb924nLZ1FSZRa1n6TkW/kbB17hLzwQSqAEEJZpQ9EZY/QkO hE/Z+DofzGlfK4iDyrIjwwTt7T7004KPC7gQI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.148.206 with SMTP id g14mr6087hbb.54.1240427049545; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:04:09 -0400 Message-ID: From: Daniel Underwood To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 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 19:28:00 -0000 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