Troubles getting firmware for ipw (wifi) driver to load [SOLVED]

[Hans Nieser]

Hans Nieser wrote:

> I found this in the 
> portstree at net/ipw-firmware, but it won't install saying:
> 
> root at aphax-laptop:/usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware# make install clean
> ===>  ipw-firmware-1.3_4 ipw(4) support is already included in your tree.
> ===>  Cleaning for ipw-firmware-1.3_4

Turns out all I had to do was "make config" and disable the option of 
loading the module. Now it continues on and installs the firmwares. I 
guess looking at the error message it's kind of obvious, not sure why I 
couldn't figure this out yesterday.