Anyone got a Pro/Wireless 2200BG card work on pfSense 2.01 ?

jamesdean

Has anyone had luck using this card (Pro/Wireless 2200BG) on pfSense 2.01 ?

I installed one on a Alix2d3 board and dmesg says its not recognized.

Robert

GruensFroeschli

Did you already accept the license agreement?
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,10251.0.html

jamesdean

@GruensFroeschli:

Did you already accept the license agreement?
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,10251.0.html

Im seeing this on dmseg out.

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wlan: mac acl policy registered
wpi: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/.
wpi: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (wpi_fw, 0xc0883050, 0) error 1

iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)

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My /boot/loader.conf

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legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1

hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
loader_color="NO"
autoboot_delay="5"
hw.ata.wc="0"
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"
beastie_disable="YES"
vm.kmem_size="435544320"
vm.kmem_size_max="535544320"

#############

jamesdean

Got the LICENSE error to go away by adding the following to the top of /boot/loader.conf

autoboot_delay="2"
legal.intel_ipw.license_ack="1"
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack="1"

Still errors everywhere tho…...

uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
vr0: link state changed to UP
vr2: link state changed to DOWN
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)
iwi0: HOSTAP mode not supported

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FreeBSD is so frustrating sometimes.

This freebsd mailing list thread says this card works with right kernel ko.
I guess I have remove pfsense 2.01 and install FreeBSD 8 and work from there.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-November/000047.html

stephenw10

The iwi driver doesn't support hostap mode as far as I can tell.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

JimP's list agrees: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AojFUXcbH0ROdHgwYkFHbkRUdV9hVWljVWl5SXkxbFE&hl=en#gid=0

Steve

Edit: Are you trying to use hostap mode?

jamesdean

Im trying to setup a basic access point with the card.

Trying to do AP with WAP2 AES2.

So no HOSTAP == NO access point of any kind.
This sucks …...

This card does support it look here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HostAP (bottom of page)

Link to the HOSTAP driver
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2200-ap/

I am back to having hope

Robert

jimp

I don't see any trace of hostap even in FreeBSD 9 for iwi, so I wouldn't really get your hopes up. That driver you linked to is for Linux, so probably not possible to translate it over.

Certainly less trouble to just get a supported card rather than fight the iwi.