net/iwi-firmware refuses to build on 7.2-STABLE

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 1 20:47:42 UTC 2009


Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> Today I wanted to build net/iwi-firmware on 7.2-STABLE and I got
> 
> ===>  iwi-firmware-2.4_8 is configured with iwicontrol(8) which you don't need, use 'make rmconfig' and uncheck CONTROL.
> 
> While the firmware itself is in the base system, iwicontrol(8)
> is not. The port should be modified to cope with this but I
> have no idea in what way. Some ideas:
> 
> 1. Remove the build restrictions
> 2. Just build iwicontrol on systems where the fw is not needed
> 3. Make an extra port just to build iwicontrol
> 4. ???
> 
> Any suggestions? Thanks,

man iwi; the firmware is automatically loaded by the driver

	Sam


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