iwi problems on -CURRENT (Apr 6. 2010)

Adam K Kirchhoff akirchhoff135014 at comcast.net
Tue Apr 6 16:37:28 UTC 2010


Shoot, good catch.  It doesn't show up in pciconf nor with the Ubuntu 
9.10 CD I have here.  Thanks.  Guess it's time to get my atheros pccard 
working.

Adam

On 4/6/2010 11:00 AM, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 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,
> --
> Rui Paulo
>
>    



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