Recently, a large set of fixes have been MFC'd to the 6-STABLE version of the iwi(4) driver. This is not a transparent change to the system, as changes to the firmware support have been made.
In order to use the new driver, a number of steps must be followed:
First, ensure the line device firmware exists within your
FreeBSD configuration file.
Second, the new driver requires that the port iwi-firmware-kmod
be installed on the system. One slight problem is that the port
will refuse to build on a 6-STABLE system (at least at the time of
writing), since it is expecting a Release 7 target. It is therefore
necessary to modify the Makefile in the
ipw-firmware-kmod directory (which is used by the
Makefile in iwi-firmware-kmod). Change the os
version checked against, 700014, to that returned by
/sbin/sysctl -n kern.osreldate. So, the old version should
look like this:
.if ${OSVERSION} < 700014
IGNORE= needs fresh ${DRIVERNAME}(4), install net/${DRIVERNAME}-firmware instead
.endif
And be changed to this:
.if ${OSVERSION} < 601102
IGNORE= needs fresh ${DRIVERNAME}(4), install net/${DRIVERNAME}-firmware instead
.endif
This has been fixed in the latest ports tree (from 12th July, 2006).
Whatever means you used to load the old firmware, you can now
discard (in my case it was /etc/start_if.iwi0)
