BWN driver error messages

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Wed Sep 8 14:22:05 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD at insightbb.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2010 21:46:43 Eitan Adler wrote:
>> When I attempt to use the if_bwn driver I get the following messages:
>>
>> Is my card not supported or am I missing a step or is it something else?
>>
...
> You need a package or port of:
>  bwn-firmware-kmod-0.1.0 Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11 Firmware Kernel Module
>

The closest port I find is

net/bwi-firmware-kmod


# locate bwn-|grep ports|wc -l
       0

When I searched for firmware using make quicksearch key="firmware" I
found net/bwn-firmware-kmod but it does not exist

ls -lao /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod
ls: /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod: No such file or directory





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Eitan Adler


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