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

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Thu Mar 16 18:33:23 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 21:21 +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
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> Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > 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.
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> I've just install iwi-firmware-kmod in addition to iwi-firmware I have
> installed. Right?

If your iwi(4) driver depends on firmware(9) then you don't need
iwi-firmware anymore. Check the output of kldstat -v.

> Nothing changed. A firmware does not load with the same diagnostic.
> 
> I have CURRENT a day or two old.

An error message would help :-)

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Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer



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