Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-08 Thread Mihai Popescu
>Whoops. Spoke too soon. Failing again. > >nwid *** >wpakey >inet 192.168.0.235 255.255.255.0 NONE >Yet commenting the last line and adding dhcp works fine. >-- >Ed Ahlsen-Girard >Ft. Walton Beach FL Check your wireless side of the router or the access point and note the ran

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-06 Thread eagirard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: >Mihai Popescu wrote: > >> How did you install the firmware? >> >> I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up >> the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and >> OpenBSD so I was not aw

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200 Mihai Popescu wrote: > How did you install the firmware? > > I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up > the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and > OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to download some f

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200 Mihai Popescu wrote: > How did you install the firmware? > > I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up > the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and > OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to download some f

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-04 Thread Mihai Popescu
How did you install the firmware? I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to download some firmware files. I don't remember what exactly I did wrong, the files

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-04 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > A Sony Vaio (VPCCA25FX) cannot configure its Intel WiFi Link 1000, > complaining thusly: > > iwn0: could not read firmware > iwn0: error, 2, could not read firmware iwn-1000 from man iwn iwn%d: could not load firmware An attempt to load

iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-04 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
A Sony Vaio (VPCCA25FX) cannot configure its Intel WiFi Link 1000, complaining thusly: iwn0: could not read firmware iwn0: error, 2, could not read firmware iwn-1000 I have installed iwn-firmware-5.6. There is a /etc/firmware/iwn-1000 file present, 335056 bytes, dated Dec 31, permissions 400, own