Best way to load iwi firmware for wpa_supplicant?

[Peter Losher]

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:16 am, Marcin Jessa wrote:

> Why are you loading the module at all and not compile it into your kernel?

Because I want to run a baseline GENERIC kernel and only load those kernel 
modules I need w/o having to recompile the whole kernel to test it. :)  

It doesn't matter if it's in the kernel anyway (tried that too); at bootup 
after iwi0 is detected, it gets to /etc/network.subr, tries to 'ifconfig up' 
the interface before invoking wpa_supplicant, and it spits back "iwi0: Please 
load firmware".  Chicken, meet egg... :(

A workaround I have is to have it load the firmware at the top 
of /etc/network.subr, before ifconfig is invoked.   That works for my WPA 
network... to a point, it associates, dhclient gets a lease, and it works 
well until the next WPA rekey in around five minutes, then it loses signal.

And when I try associating w/ a WEP network, console just spits out a stream 
of "iwi0: fatal error".  All that's defined in that case is:

network={
		ssid="Homeport" (SSID is broadcasted)
		scan_ssid=0
		key_mgmt=NONE
}

-Peter
-- 
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