Re: Wireless on hp 6710b

Benjamin Close <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
besideinfo wrote:
> --- Yousif Hassan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't really understand what you mean here.  Do
>> you mean they do not show 
>> up in kldstat at all, or that they do show up in
>> kldstat but are still 
>> "missing" in terms of being attached?  (Both
>> scenarios possible).
>>
>> I'm not sure if it'll matter - my pciconf is ever so
>> slightly different:
>> class=0x028000 card=0x135b103c chip=0x42228086
>> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>>                                              ^
>> I have b instead of c but I doubt this matters,
>> however only a developer of 
>> wpi could answer definitively.
>> It sounds like it could be because the modules are
>> failing to load - which 
>> may *not* be a problem with the wireless card
>> itself, but something else. 
>> If they *are* loading, but the device is not
>> attaching, then the problem 
>> could be related to some hardware in your system.
>>
>> Did you try manually loading the if_wpi.ko module? 
>> What error do you get? 
>> There have been some bugs reported with certain PCI
>> implementations that 
>> cause wpi not to attach, but I haven't (personally)
>> seen any bad reports for 
>> HPs.  My HP works, although it's a later model than
>> yours.  In those cases, 
>> the kernel module loads but doesn't attach.
>>
>> (Also, try not to top-post, it makes tracking the
>> current spot in the 
>> conversation harder for new people coming into the
>> thread who may want to 
>> help you.)
>>
>> --Yousif 
>>
>>
>>     
> Sorry my previous post was incomplete.
>
> what I mean is that the five modules are declared in
> the loader.conf, but kldstat doesn't show them up. 
>
> I tried to locate the five module using the locate
> command, but the only modules presents on my notebook
> are wlan_amrr.ko and wpifw.ko. 
> The modules if_wpi, wlan_scan_sta and wlan_scan_ap do
> not exists. 
>
> I forgot to say that this the first time I use freeBSD
> a mailing list and above my english is bad. So any
> advice are well accept.
>
>   
Some modules will not load as they are built into the kernel by default.
Are you able to post the results of:

ifconfig -v wpi0

a:

dmesg |grep wpi

would help after you boot verbosely (an option when FreeBSD starts)
Cheers,
    Benjamin
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