Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:16:48 +0200 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: Peter Losher <plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to load iwi firmware for wpa_supplicant? Message-ID: <20050920091648.41e2bf16.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <200509191617.49953.plosher@plosh.net> References: <200509142146.42969.plosher@plosh.net> <200509191617.49953.plosher@plosh.net>
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:17:38 -0700 Peter Losher <plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 09:46 pm, Peter Losher wrote: > > I now have a Dell Inspiron 700m w/ a integrated iwi chipset, which is > > detected just fine, and works w/ WEP keys etc. with the iwi firmware > > loaded from the local/rc.d script. > > [...] > > > However, I need to get the firmware loaded before wpa_supplicant starts > > for those WPA networks I attach to. (which is why I still have a ath0 > > card sitting around) > > > > Right now, the preferred method seems to be having a > > local/etc/devd/iwi.conf defined like so: > > [...] > > > Yet when the system boots I get a error when wpa_supplicant starts up: > > > > -=- > > iwi0: Please load firmware > > -=- > > > > Is what I have defined in iwi.conf enough, or am I missing a piece here? > > I finally got devd to recognize the device (and load the firmware when > detected), however to do so, I have to boot w/o loading if_iwi.ko; then when > right before the wpa_supplicant rc.d script is called, load the iwi kernel > module (whend devd loads the iwi firmware) then wpa_supplicant is able to > associate with the WPA network I have here. But this is brutally hackish, > and there has to be a better (and cleaner) way for devd to do this properly > at startup.... > > Ideas? Why are you loading the module at all and not compile it into your kernel?
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