New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers [regression!]

[Max Laier]

On Monday 10 April 2006 19:00, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >>>>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:03:16 -0700
> > >>>>> Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> said:
> >
> > finlayson> #iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m ibss
> > finlayson> iwicontrol: Can't load firmware to driver: Invalid argument
> >
> > finlayson> (This worked OK with the original "iwi" driver.)
> >
> > New iwi driver loads firmware automatically.  You need to install
> > ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod instead of ports/net/iwi-firmware.  If you
> > are using RELENG_6, you need to specify -DTESTING to an argument of
> > make(1) when building iwi-firmware-kmod.
>
> I did that on 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #1: Sun Apr 9 20:07:42 CEST 2006
> and know I have the following modules available:
>
> fk at TP51 /boot/kernel $ls /boot/kernel/*iwi*
> /boot/kernel/if_iwiNG.ko*    /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko*
> /boot/kernel/iwi_boot.ko*    /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko*
> /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko*
>
> Is there still something missing? No matter which module I try
> to kldload first, it always fails with messages like:
>
> KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> KLD iwi_ibss.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available

This refers to the firmware(9) module that supplies basic support for firmware 
loading and should be part of RELENG_6 for a long time already.  How did you 
install that kernel?  To fix it you can do:

# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/firmware; make all install clean

which should give you /boot/kernel/firmware.ko.  Nontheless it would be 
interesting why this isn't there already.

> I thought the firmware was in the iwi_*.ko files?

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