Subject: Re: netbsd-4 and wpi
To: Alexander V. Butenko <alex@digiqube.com>
From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/17/2007 09:16:43
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Alexander V. Butenko wrote:
> Yesterday i put new netbsd-4 snapshot kernel and findout that i can't
> make my wpi wireless card working.
>
> With old kernel wireless card was working only while i was not
> downloading nothing
> and thats why i decide to try new snap. With new snap when i'm trying to
> configure wireless with 'ifconfig wpi0 10.0.0.5 netmask...' i'm getting
> a message 'Can't load firmware' when ipw3945.ucode is located in
> firmware directory and in /usr/pkg/libdata/if_wpi/ also.
>
> What i'm doing wrong?

You need the newer wpi-firmware-2.14.4 package instead of 
wpi-firmware-1.13. The newer one is called iwlwifi-3945.ucode

-- 
Stephen