On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 12:06:24PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> I just installed current from the most recent snapshot on a Thinkpad T410.
> Wireless networking doesn't work. During the install, I had an ethernet
> cable plugged in and configured the em0 interface (I use static ip
> addresses), so I could download the firmware. The firmware got loaded
> during the install, but to be sure, I ran fw_update after booting the
> installed system, which did nothing. After setting up /etc/hostname.iwn0
> and saving away hostname.em0, I rebooted. Networking failed to initialize
> properly, with the message
> 
> iwn0: could not load firmware .text section
> 
> Here's the output of ls /etc/firmware/iwn*:
> 
> /etc/firmware/iwn-100
> /etc/firmware/iwn-1000
> /etc/firmware/iwn-105
> /etc/firmware/iwn-135
> /etc/firmware/iwn-2000
> /etc/firmware/iwn-2030
> /etc/firmware/iwn-4965
> /etc/firmware/iwn-5000
> /etc/firmware/iwn-5150
> /etc/firmware/iwn-6000
> /etc/firmware/iwn-6005
> /etc/firmware/iwn-6030
> /etc/firmware/iwn-6050
> /etc/firmware/iwn-license

Let's rule out the obvious: Is the firmware image corrupt?

SHA1 checksums on my system are:

$ sha1 /etc/firmware/iwn-*
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-100) = 5f85593988e9542ca9246e3130c449ed638b6afe
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-1000) = a824bb5f10b28ce71cef91836cbd25760ea9b4a3
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-105) = dc733a79244337c037525654d421983376e93c33
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-135) = 4493a7b9d5d297b692e44aa3b0031ebff76014c6
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-2000) = 9e1b8d630cdffad7706f31087444980a8cc48fb5
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-2030) = 7508670d5c0a2056e06e3197b9501636e76cf6bf
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-4965) = 86b4ff04133b2b44412833234dc1dfbb502a4b7a
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-5000) = 22bf6093ed8204027cc3207c739d2cab9cc92ea3
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-5150) = 0b41795a98272d125998d8bc1c0d478a4e5ef71e
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-6000) = a337927d149bf7b2072f79f8325011fe5b3dad68
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-6005) = 1936ad5fe2551ac9d6551be0d85984c1f5cc5cf7
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-6030) = 0c5dbfed5f50ef39b56827651f572bea25bfc27e
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-6050) = 0a881b0100ac82b7eab25d5a297f003fcd76ee7b
SHA1 (/etc/firmware/iwn-license) = a988c3a968dc9689d9cf5770c639a0e2f598c5ae

$ pkg_info | grep iwn-firmware
iwn-firmware-5.11p1 firmware binary images for iwn(4) driver

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