iwi problems on -CURRENT (Apr 6. 2010)

[Rui Paulo]

On 6 Apr 2010, at 14:35, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> I'm having some problems with iwi on -CURRENT.
> 
> FreeBSD scroll.ashke.com 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr  3
> EDT 2010root at scroll.ashke.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCROLL   i386
> 
> Though this also happens with GENERIC.
> 
> In loader.conf I have:
> 
> if_iwi_load="YES"
> iwi_bss_load="YES"
> legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
> 
> In /etc/rc.conf I have:
> 
> wlans_iwi0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP wpa"
> 
> Upon bootup, iwi fails to work with:
> 
> iwi0:<Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG>  at device 3.0 on pci3
> iwi0: [ITHREAD]
> iwi0: parity error
> iwi0: timeout waiting for iwi_bss firmware initialization to complete
> iwi0: could not load boot firmware iwi_bss
> iwi0: timeout waiting for master
> 
> According to the iwi man page, "could not load boot firmware" "should
> not happen":-)
> 
> Any thoughts on how to get this working?  For what it's worth, I
> installed FreeBSD on this machine earlier this week, immediately
> upgraded to -CURRENT (previous installations from the 8-STABLE series
> on this laptop refused to let any wireless driver connect to the APs at
> work, so I specifically wanted to see if this had been fixed in
> -CURRENT), and iwi worked fine for a few days.  Then it stopped, though
> I did not change anything on the system.  I updated -CURRENT today to
> see if doing so would get iwi working again, but it did not.

If it was working fine and you didn't touch anything it can be a hardware fault. Can you boot other OS to check?

Regards,
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Rui Paulo