PRO/wireless scanning

[Johnny Choque]

> > I'm testing the scanning features of Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG 
> > build-in Toshiba Tecra M3 using FreeBSD 6.1 and 
> iwi-firmware-2.4_7 (I 
> > think that it is the last version, isn't it?). I have noticed a 
> > unstable behavior of the wireless interface when I try to scan the 
> > access point around it (ifconfig iwi0 scan). Sometimes it 
> provide the 
> > report of the detected access points but sometimes it keep 
> waiting a 
> > long time without provide any report. Do you have the same behavior 
> > with iwi driver and iwi-firmware?, do you know how I can 
> find a solution for that?
> >
> > I have also noticed that the web pages for Intel 
> PRO/Wireless 2200BG 
> > for FreeBSD (http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html) 
> > have a watermark that say "discontinued", does mean that there are 
> > another web or project that will continue to improve the iwi driver 
> > and iwi-firmware? Do you know any information about that?
> 
> Please use iwi(4) from RELENG_6 (soon to be 6.2), which has 
> many improvements and bug fixes over the version that was 
> shipped with 6.1.  

Actually, I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, does your suggestion means that I
need to make an upgrading of the base system? Sorry for my newbie question.
Does "iwi(4)" means? When I do "man iwi" I see "iwi(4)" on the upper side,
is that right?. I also noticed that I have the
/usr/port/net/iwi-firmware-kmod, is it needed to upgrade the base system?

> Note that it uses the firmware(9) subsystem to load the 
> firmware image, so you will have to change to 
> net/iwi-firmware-kmod from ports - as described in UPDATING.  
> The latest firmware version - IIRC is 3.0.

How can I get the firmware version 3.0?

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