Re: Loading if_wi from loader.conf?

[Rob Schulhof <rrs@xxxxxxx>]

It should work if you load the wlan kernel module.  If compiling into the
kernel, just add "device wlan" to your configuration.  However, even
without the wlan module, my DWL-520 card is detected on probe, so maybe
something else is amiss.

--Rob

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Loading if_wi from loader.conf?
> Date: 24 Dec 2004 14:40:47 GMT
> To: bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This doesn't seem to work currently:
>
> > Preloaded elf module "/modules/if_wi.ko" at 0xc0554360.
> > link_elf: symbol ieee80211_ieee2mhz undefined
> > Preloaded elf module "/modules/wlan.ko" at 0xc0554408.
>
> > And wi0 isn't detected when it continues to boot up.
>
> > Adam
>
> I tried compiling it into the kernel:
>
> cc -c -O -pipe  -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs
> -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
> -Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -ansi -g -nostdinc -I. -I/usr/src/sys
> -I/usr/src/sys/../include -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica
> -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter  -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-common -ffreestanding  vers.c
> linking kernel.debug
> if_wi.o: In function `wi_attach':
> /usr/src/sys/dev/netif/wi/if_wi.c:315: undefined reference to
> `ieee80211_ieee2mhz'
> /usr/src/sys/dev/netif/wi/if_wi.c:460: undefined reference to
> `ieee80211_ifattach'
> /usr/src/sys/dev/netif/wi/if_wi.c:485: undefined reference to
> `ieee80211_media_init'
>
> And so on till the build complete errors out.
>
> Adam
>