Re: Is the Wii wifi usable?

[Leo Lundberg <leo.lundberg99%ikmail.com@localhost>]

I got the firmware installed, thank you! It seems to work since I can run 
ifconfig bwi0 up without error. I've been following chapter 24.2.1 from 
the wiki to connect to my router but when I run 'service wpa_supplicant 
reload' after configuring wpa_supplicant.conf I get "Failed to connect to 
non-global ctrl_ifname: (nil) error: Inappropriate ioct for device"

/Leo

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> > On Aug 23, 2025, at 5:29 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 11:20:51AM +0200, leo.lundberg99%ikmail.com@localhost wrote:
> > > Hello! I've compiled latest NetBSD master to get the wii image that can
> > > detect the wifi module on the wii. Running ifconfig -a shows the wifi
> > > interface bwi0 but when I run 'ifocnfig bwi0 up' I get a "bwi0:
> > > firmware_open failed on v3/ucode5.fw". Am I missing some step for using the
> > > wifi or is it not actually working yet?
> >
> > See:
> >
> > https://man.netbsd.org/bwi.4#FILES
> >
> > You need to copy the files manually.
>
> The man page needs to be updated, FWIW.  The “http” URL no longer works.  It needs to be “https”.
>
> -- thorpej