Symbol pcmcia wireless card error

isso

I am using Pfsense 1.3 Alpha and i love it but i am getting this error message with my Symbol 4131 pcmcia wireless card

Wi0:<symbol spectrum24="" la4100="" series="" wlan="" pc="" card="">at port0xd000-0xd047 irq 21 function 0 config 1 on pccard 0
Wi0: Symbol LA4100 needs 'option WI_SYMBOL_FIRMWARE'

Can you please help me .</symbol>

isso

In FreeBSD Man Pages they mentioned that the wi driver is supported :
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE

Can anyone who has more experience in BSD help me on this please ?

Thanks

wallabybob

A quick glance at the source code (sys/dev/wi/if_wi_pccard.c) for FreeBSD 7.0 suggests the driver for your particular card needs to be compiled with kernel option WI_SYMBOL_FIRMWARE enabled. This probably applies to the 1.2.1-RC builds as well.

	/*
	 * The cute little Symbol LA4100-series CF cards need to have
	 * code downloaded to them.
	 */
	pccard_get_vendor(dev, &vendor);
	pccard_get_product(dev, &product);
	if (vendor == PCMCIA_VENDOR_SYMBOL &&
	    product == PCMCIA_PRODUCT_SYMBOL_LA4100) {
#ifdef WI_SYMBOL_FIRMWARE
		if (wi_symbol_load_firm(device_get_softc(dev),
		    spectrum24t_primsym, sizeof(spectrum24t_primsym),
		    spectrum24t_secsym, sizeof(spectrum24t_secsym))) {
			device_printf(dev, "couldn't load firmware\n");
			return (ENXIO);
		}
#else
		device_printf(dev, 
		    "Symbol LA4100 needs 'option WI_SYMBOL_FIRMWARE'\n");
		wi_free(dev);
		return (ENXIO);
#endif
	}

Do you have the firmware file? (Guess that could be another problem.) And I don't have any idea how the firmware would be loaded, though the man page for wi would probably be a good place to start looking: go to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi and type wi in the appropriate box then click the submit button.

A lot of FreeBSD drivers are shared with OpenBSD and NetBSD. I've sometimes found the OpenBSD man pages a bit more informative than the FreeBSD man pages: http://www.openbsd.org and click on the Manuals link on the left.

David_W

Looking at the CVS commit logs and the associated diffs gives more information. The firmware is shipped with FreeBSD - it's in src/sys/dev/wi/spectrum24t_cf.h in all but HEAD (it has been moved in HEAD as part of the wireless improvements). The kernel option is required - but I see no need to have it turned off unless an extra few KBytes in the kernel (or wi module if wi(4) is a module) is a problem.

The only thing to be careful of is that the firmware has an advertising clause in its licence; see the header file I just mentioned for details.