Intel iwi0: Urgent

voona

Hi Guys went and shelled out on a new 2915ABG wireless card for my alix box as it is fully supported in bsd.
Plugged her in and getting strange things happening

iwi0@pci0:0:12:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10118086 chip=0x42248086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00

iwi0: flags=8803 <up,broadcast,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:16:6f:c5:0a:b8
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier

[2.0-BETA5][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(5): dmesg |grep iwi
iwi0: <intel(r) pro="" wireless="" 2915abg="">mem 0xe0080000-0xe0080fff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
iwi0: [ITHREAD]
iwi_bss: could not load firmware image, error 2
iwi0: could not load firmware
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)

Can anyone offer any help. Urgent. Cheers :-*</intel(r)></up,broadcast,simplex,multicast>

From what I just read at freeBSD's website, this card isn't exactly plug and play. You need to install a port for the firmware, which is a freebsd thing, I'm not sure how well ports will mesh with pfsense. (I know pfsense is based on freebsd, but like any distro not everything carriers between nicely)

http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html

jimp

FYI- iwi doesn't support hostap mode, so that can't be an access point.

voona

Well thats really anoying.. Do we have a list of cards that work with minimal effort, that support hostap ?

jimp

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AojFUXcbH0ROdHgwYkFHbkRUdV9hVWljVWl5SXkxbFE&hl=en#gid=0

voona

I love you Jimp :)

jimp

I'd stick to ath if you want to be sure it will work properly all around though.

voona

Yeh i can see that
I just bought a Atheros 5213A 802.11 a/b/g AR5BMB-44 Mini PCI Card.

See what happens..

@jimp:

I'd stick to ath if you want to be sure it will work properly all around though.