Loïc Pefferkorn

Here are the steps I have followed to get this card working under NetBSD 4.0.1, with WPA, on my Thinkpad T43 laptop. I’m using an access point providing DHCP.

1. Get the pkgsrc tree
2. Go into sysutils/iwi-firmware3 (not iwi-firmware !)port directory and type make install
3. You should get an error stating that you haven’t accepted the license of the firmware, please follow the intructions given (echo “ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=intel-ipw-license” >> /etc/mk.conf)
4. Type again make install, this should work without errors now.
5. Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf with your WPA information :

network={
    ssid="YOURSSID"
    scan_ssid=1
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    psk="YOURWPAKEY"
}

6. Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf  to get wpa_supplicant loaded at startup and DHCP configuration for the interface

wpa_supplicant=YES
wpa_supplicant_flags="-B -i iwi0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
dhclient=YES
dhclient_flags="-nw"

7. Start wpa_supplicant with /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start (you should see kernel message firmware version = 196608)
8. Restart your networking setup with /etc/rc.d/network restart
9. It works !

To get more information regarding wireless/wep/wpa setup, please have a look at the nice wireless network security NetBSD wiki page.