iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware .. (FreeBSD 9.2-RC3)

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patttt

Hi,

I freshly installed FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 today on an Acer TravelMate 3000, and am having trouble setting up WiFi. Having read the iwi(4) I have these entries in /boot/loader.conf:

Code: 
if_iwi_load="YES"
iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"
legal.intel_iwi.license_ack="1"

kldstat shows that the selected modules have been loaded. However when doing ifconfig iwi0 up scan it yields this:

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

I've switched the radio on/off, no result. No other changes have been made to the system after freshly installing it off the memory stick.
 
Can you try on 9.1-RELEASE if it's working there?
 
Thanks for your reply. Same results with 9.1-RELEASE:

Code: 
root@:/root # ifconfig iwi0 up scan
iwi0: timeout waiting for (null) firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware (null)

The driver works just fine on OpenBSD however (judging from the manual it seems to originate from the same code base).
 
Were you able to create a wlandev of wlan0? (I'm going by the handbook here.) I'm using iwn(4) rather than iwi(4), but, for simple testing at least, I do
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0
ifconfig wlan0 scan
and this works. If I use your ifconfig iwn0 up scan I get an error that the device doesn't support scanning. Not sure if it will help at all, but as it's a quick thing to check, might be worth a shot.

I would also post the results of pciconf -lv |grep -B3 network.
 
Same message here with 8.4-RELEASE FreeBSD/i386. I've got it working, not perfectly because it still displays the errors in the /var/log/messages. My system hardware is a base model T42 IBM ThinkPad. The configuration that I am using, my wifi is working, is as follows.
/boot/loader.conf
Code: 
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
ahci_load="YES"
legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
if_iwi_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
Note: I put my legal Intel line before any wifi lines.

/etc/rc.conf
Code: 
wlans_iwi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Code: 
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
               ssid="Wifi Name"
               psk="password"
               priority="1"
}

With the above configuration I can reboot, login and test by running ping -c 10 google.com
Code: 
--- google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
 
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