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From: Fernando <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Can't load firmare for ipw2200bg
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>Number:         165595
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [ipw] ipw(4): Can't load firmare for ipw2200bg
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-wireless
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 01 21:10:04 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Thu Mar 01 21:33:11 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Fernando
>Release:        9.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD hammer 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Mar  1 21:14:56 CET 2012     root@hammer:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
Since 9.0-RELEASE I am not able to bring the wireless card up.
dmesg shows the following errors:

iwi0: timeout processing command blocks for iwi_bss firmware
iwi0: could not load main firmware iwi_bss

The computer is a Clevo D400K. Since 7.0 up to 8.2-RELEASE the wireless worked without problems (besides the known firmware limitations and so).

Here[1] there is more information about the problem and the steps I followed to try to fix it.

I get the error also with the GENERIC kernel. My loader.conf contains the following lines:

wlan_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"

iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"

As suggested, this could be ACPI related since deactivating ACPI in the bootloader results in a panic coming suspicioiusly from the iwi_detach function. No core is generated despite I have the proper configuration (crash too early?)

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2012-February/001370.html
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot with the GENERIC kernel and the loader.conf suggested above.

After that, create a wlan0 device:

ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwi0

And then try to bring it up

ifconfig wlan0 up
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-wireless 
Responsible-Changed-By: gjb 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Mar 1 21:32:22 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainers. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=165595 
>Unformatted:
