BWN driver error messages

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Wed Sep 8 14:50:27 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD at insightbb.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:21:44 Eitan Adler wrote:
>> 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
>
> I'm sorry, I read your post too quickly and missed where you clearly stated
> the problem.
>
> You said:
>> ls: /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod: No such file or directory
> This indicates that you need to update your ports tree.  Do you know how?
>

[root at AlphaBeta ~ ]# !portsn
[root at AlphaBeta ~ ]# portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done.
Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
No updates needed.
Removing old files and directories... done.
Extracting new files:
Building new INDEX files... done.
[root at AlphaBeta ~ ]# grep "REFUSE" /etc/portsnap.conf
# can cause problems due to missing dependencies.  If you have REFUSE
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REFUSE korean polish portuguese russian ukrainian vietnamese












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Eitan Adler


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