WLAN not detected on Acer TM 292ECLi

Hi,

anyone having WLAN working on an Acer Travelmate 290E? It
doesn't seem to
be detected at all on my laptop, which is a model 292ECli.
As a Centrino
laptop, it should have a Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG built in.

I installed iwi-firmware from ports, built a custom kernel
(world and
kernel from -STABLE today) and checked that I have
"options pci" and
"options wlan" in it, just as man iwi says. I
tried to load iwi as module
with kldload, at boot time by setting
if_iwi_load="YES" to loader.conf,
and also tried to build it statically into the kernel. At no
time, I get
iwi mentioned in dmesg. kldstat says it is loaded when I
load it
dynamically.

Also, the firmware is not found in /usr/local/libdata as
mentioned on the
iwi-firmware webpage at

http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html
I'm not by my laptop right now so I can't check, but
somewhere I read that
it is installed in /boot/firmware instead?

But the mystery is, why doesn't the adapter get detected at
all? Something
I've missed? Anyone have ideas?

Otherwise FBSD 6.0 is a great release - the first one I have
successfully
installed on the laptop. I've seen others having problems
with Acer 2XX
laptops also, so I recommend installing 6.0, and enabling
ACPI when
booting. Without, at least my panics, but
acpi_load="YES" in loader.conf
to the resque!
  --Ville


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freebsdjuiceless.net wrote:

> anyone having WLAN working on an Acer Travelmate 290E?
It doesn't
> seem to be detected at all on my laptop, which is a
model 292ECli. As
> a Centrino laptop, it should have a Intel PRO Wireless
2200BG built
> in.

You could check it with pciconf -lv.
 
> I installed iwi-firmware from ports, built a custom
kernel (world and
> kernel from -STABLE today) and checked that I have
"options pci" and
> "options wlan" in it, just as man iwi says. I
tried to load iwi as
> module with kldload, at boot time by setting
if_iwi_load="YES" to
> loader.conf, and also tried to build it statically into
the kernel.
> At no time, I get iwi mentioned in dmesg. kldstat says
it is loaded
> when I load it dynamically.

I don't think you read and followed the port's instructions:

|You must choose the correct mode depending on how you want
to
|use your adapter.
|
|For instance, to download firmware for BSS mode:
|
|  # iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d /boot/firmware -m bss
|
|The port has installed a startup script (iwi.sh). Add these
lines
|to /etc/rc.conf to use it :
|
|  - iwi_enable (bool) : defaults to "NO", set it
to "YES" to
|    use the startup script.
|  - iwi_interfaces (str) : defaults to "iwi0",
override it to
|    change to interface names list (optional).
|  - iwi_mode_<iface> (str) : defaults to
"bss", possible values
|    are bss, ibss and sniffer (optional).

Fabian
-- 
http://www.fabiankeil.de/

Fabian Keil wrote:
> You could check it with pciconf -lv.
>   
Thanks, this did the trick - it turned out that my laptop
does not have
a 2200BG adapter. I must have confused it with another Acer
laptop that
I bought and configured for my friend a while ago. pciconf
says:
none6pci1:2:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x1220185f
chip=0x432014e4
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller'
    class    = network

so it has the non-supported Broadcom adapter. So sorry for
all the noise 

Google gave hope to get it working with the NDIS wrapper,
and sure,
after fighting with it a while, I have a ndis0 adapter now
detected.
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01
/05/freebsd-howto-ndisulate-windows-drivers/
was of good help - although the info there is outdated for
6.0 - one
should use ndisgen instead.
  --Ville

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