Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"
Stacey Roberts <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Bill! On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Benjamin Close <[email protected]>: > > > Arne Schwabe wrote: > > > Bill Moran schrieb: > > >> I'm running 7 on an IBM Lenovo T61. > > >> > > >> I'm having some weirdness with the 802.11 card. It's a Intel Pro > > >> 3945ABG, which appears to be supported by the wpi driver. Rebuilding > > >> the kernel with wpi support causes the NIC to be detected and a > > >> wpi0 interface is created, but when I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" I get > > >> a message that the radio transmitter is turned off. > > >> > > >> ? > > >> > > >> I've searched through the BIOS and the card is enabled everywhere I can > > >> find. Perusing both the ifconfig and the wpi man page hasn't clued me > > >> in to what I can do to turn the radio on. My google searches have > > >> turned up nothing but pointers to the wpi driver source code. > > >> > > >> Any advice/pointers will be welcome at this stage. :) > > >> > > >> > > > Only to rule out the obvious. Is the wlan switch on your notebook in > > > the right position? > > > Nice :) So was this your problem? I have the same notebook and have done the same procedure as you - enabling the hardware in the kernel, but the switch on the front of the laptop is set to "On" - always.., However, although ifconfig show the card okay: $ ifconfig wpi0 wpi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:1c:bf:5f:57:6f media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bintval 0 $ I get the following each time I try to ifconfig wpi0 up: Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw' Feb 9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw' Feb 9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver Thanks. Regards, S Roberts > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"