Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:48:11 +0300 From: "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to load iwi firmware at boot time Message-ID: <89ce7f740609261048n120f3fa7x82a6269335674020@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <89ce7f740609260436r41dade3dyc60f330fff66b0ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <89ce7f740609260436r41dade3dyc60f330fff66b0ee@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, On 9/26/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have an Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 running on it. > I have Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless network card which I use > successfully. I have the following iwi related entries in rc.conf: > > ## Intel Wireless Adapter settings > iwi_enable="YES" > iwi_interfaces="iwi0" > iwi_mode="bss" > ifconfig_iwi0="ssid **** DHCP" > > This used to bring up my iwi0 interface at boot time and I had a > working internet connection after the machine had booted. > > However, this morning I did "make world" (attaching cvsup files for > the kernel and ports for completeness). The iwi firmware was not > loaded at boot time and the following messages are given: > > $ dmesg | grep iwi > iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xb0101000-0xb0101fff irq 17 > at device 4.0 on pci6 > iwi0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xb0101000 > iwi0: bpf attached > iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:0c:45:a1 > iwi0: bpf attached > iwi0: bpf attached > iwi0: [MPSAFE] > iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps > 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps > iwi0: Please load firmware > > I have to manually load the firmrare invoking the following commands as root: > # iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss > # ifconfig iwi0 up > > Could you please advise me how I can load automatically the firmware > during boot time? > > Regards > Ivan > > P.S. Here is the output of uname -a: > FreeBSD ****.**** 6.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Sep 26 > 13:13:00 EEST 2006 root@****.****:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 I was able to fix it. I created an executable script located at /etc/start_if.iwi0. It contains the following line: iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss This script is executed at boot time and it loads the firmware. Thank you for the nice docs althought scattered in the Web. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com
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