RFC: New firmware ports for ipw(4) and iwi(4)

[Florent Thoumie]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:24 +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Those of you following HEAD and RELENG_6 may have been experiencing
> problems with ipw(4) and iwi(4) drivers lately because it could load
> firmwares correctly, even if you installed net/ipw-firmware or
> net/iwi-firmware.
> 
> If you had a look at recent changes, sam and max (heh) have been working
> on a firmware framework. Support has been added to HEAD/RELENG_6 some
> weeks ago. Recently damien committed changes to ipw(4) and iwi(4) to
> support firmware(9).
> 
> These two ports are creating and installing kernel modules from intel
> firmwares.
> 
> I only checked that everything compiled and installed fine, I can't try
> it due to a lack of decent internet connection at home. I'm planning to
> commit them within two days. Probably tomorrow or this afternoon if I
> get successful reports.
> 
> If you're using ipw(4) and iwi(4) on a fresh FreeBSD system, please give
> it a try and follow-up.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/ipw-firmware-kmod.shar
> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/iwi-firmware-kmod.shar
> 
> Since it may take some time before the distfiles hit mirrors, you can
> grab them here:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/distfiles/ipw/

Forgot to say that since iwi-firmware-kmod is a slave port, if you want
to use it, you need ipw-firmware-kmod as well.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer