Re: kern/52411: Cannot load iwn0 firmware (Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200

[Donald Allen <donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/52411; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Donald Allen <donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/52411: Cannot load iwn0 firmware (Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:59:40 -0400

 On 17 July 2017 at 08:37, Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
 > On Jul 16, 10:28pm, donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost (Donald Allen) wrote:
 > -- Subject: Re: kern/52411: Cannot load iwn0 firmware (Intel Centrino Wireles
 >
 > | This is beginning to feel like a documentation problem. I'm damned if
 > | I can find anything in the "Guide" or any of the other documentation
 > | available starting at netbsd.org on how to set up wifi. As I mentioned
 > | in my original report, there was a /libdata/firmware/iwn file and now
 > | I find out that despite this, I needed to install a package to obtain
 > | the firmware? Where is all this documented? Maybe I missed it, but I
 > | did make an effort to find it and did not.
 >
 > It is all there for me:
 >
 > [8:37am] 1670>cd /libdata/firmware/if_iwn/
 > [8:37am] 1671>ls
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-100-ucode      README.iwlwifi-5000-ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-1000-ucode     README.iwlwifi-5150-ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-105-ucode      README.iwlwifi-6000-ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-135-ucode      README.iwlwifi-6000g2a-ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-2000-ucode     README.iwlwifi-6000g2b-ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-2030-ucode     README.iwlwifi-6050-ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-4965-ucode     iwlwifi-100-5.ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-5000-ucode     iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-5150-ucode     iwlwifi-105-6.ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-6000-ucode     iwlwifi-135-6.ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-6000g2a-ucode  iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-6000g2b-ucode  iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
 > LICENSE.iwlwifi-6050-ucode     iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
 > README.iwlwifi-100-ucode       iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
 > README.iwlwifi-1000-ucode      iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
 > README.iwlwifi-105-ucode       iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
 > README.iwlwifi-135-ucode       iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
 > README.iwlwifi-2000-ucode      iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
 > README.iwlwifi-2030-ucode      iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode
 > README.iwlwifi-4965-ucode
 >
 > Do you have the same files?
 
 As I said in my original report, I needed to have a functioning system
 on the machine in question, so I've installed a Linux distribution and
 therefore cannot check exactly what was in /libdata/firmware. I did
 mention previously that there was a file, perhaps a directory, in that
 firmware directory and it certainly had the string 'iwn' in its name.
 It may well have been if_iwn.
 
 I did a pretty vanilla install of NetBSD 7.1 on this machine. I did
 elect to customize the sets, eliminating games and tests from the
 defaults and adding some things, too, e.g., documentation. So I think
 it's reasonable to assume that I had the same firmware files you do,
 if they are a standard part of the installation, as they appear to be,
 despite the confusion about whether firmware gets installed by default
 or via a package. But after setting up the wifi device (I did the
 install using the ethernet port), the boot-time attempts to load the
 firmware always failed, as I reported and the wifi device was not
 functioning (I tried to ping my gateway).
 
 I do have a spare 320GB USB drive and thought I'd try redo-ing the
 install to that drive. But with the drive plugged in when booting the
 installer system, there does not appear to be a way to choose that
 drive as the target. The only choice I get is the internal disk.