iwi or ndis for Intel Pro/wireless 2200BG

[martinko]

Bakul Shah wrote:
> Which driver is recommended for Intel Pro/wireless 2200BG,
> iwi or ndis?  I am using iwi and while not entirely stable it
> used to work reasonably well including suspend/resume.  Now
> it silently reboots the machine when I try to restart it
> (when connectivity with the AP is lost).  I am running fairly
> recent -current.  Thanks for any recommendation
> 
> -- bakul


hello,

i'm trying to make iwi work in IBSS mode so that i can connect it with a 
windows laptop :

i `kldload if_iwi`,
then `iwicontrol iwi0 -d /boot/firmware/ -m ibss`,
and i get the following:

Dec 17 21:02:18 mb-aw1n-bsd kernel: iwi0: timeout waiting for firmware 
initialization to complete
Dec 17 21:02:18 mb-aw1n-bsd kernel: iwi0: could not load boot firmware

i can't figure out what's the problem. :-((
help please!

cheers,

martin

ps: freebsd 6.0-stable, iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG> mem 
0xff9fa000-0xff9fafff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci2

pps: originally asked at 
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/forum/read.php?f=1&i=738&t=738#reply_738