problems configuring wireless using iwi

[Khusro Jaleel]

Hi,

I'm new to FreeBSD-CURRENT and am having problems getting my wireless
to work on my laptop. It is an old Centrino ASUS laptop with built-in
IPW2200 wireless. I've had no problems getting wireless to work on
this for the past few years now with many flavors of linux and of
course Windows so I'm sure it should also work in FreeBSD without any
issues.

However, I'm not having much luck. I've followed the instructions in
the Handbook's Wireless page and read the iwi(4) man page and added
the following to my /boot/loader.conf:

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legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
if_iwi_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"
iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"
hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
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When I reboot and do a "dmesg | grep iwi" I get:

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iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
at device 2.0 on pci2
iwi0: [ITHREAD]
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
at device 2.0 on pci2
iwi0: [ITHREAD]
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
at device 2.0 on pci2
iwi0: [ITHREAD]
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 0xff9de000-0xff9defff irq 4
at device 2.0 on pci2
iwi0: [ITHREAD]
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
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Am I forgetting to load the firmware somehow? In /boot/kernel, I see
the following files:

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[root at asus ~]# ls -l /boot/kernel/iwi_*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  197996 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  190182 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  194760 Oct 31 23:56 /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko
-----------

ifconfig:
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
       options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
       ether 00:11:2f:0c:e8:7f
       inet 192.168.1.70 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
       status: active
fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
       options=8<VLAN_MTU>
       ether 02:e0:18:1b:1f:63
       ch 1 dma -1
fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
       lladdr 0.e0.18.0.3.1b.1f.63.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
iwi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
       ether 00:0e:35:0d:7c:65
       media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
       status: no carrier
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
       inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
       inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

But if I try to do "ifconfig iwi0 up" I get:

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iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
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Any help appreciated. Thanks.