Best way to load iwi firmware for wpa_supplicant?

[Peter Losher]

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?

Best Wishes - Peter
-- 
[ http://www.plosh.net/ ] - "Earth Halted: Please reboot to continue"
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