From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 17:02:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393CA16A41F for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:02:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from stimpy.forestinformatics.com (cvo-cr1-200-239.peak.org [69.59.200.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77F143D62 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:02:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from rodan ([192.168.0.10]) by stimpy.forestinformatics.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id jBDH1lOn039740; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Message-ID: <004101c60006$e7b60f70$0a00a8c0@rodan> From: "Jeff D. Hamann" To: Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:01:42 -0800 Organization: Forest Informatics, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on stimpy.forestinformatics.com Cc: damien.bergamini@free.fr Subject: getting iwi_firmware to work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Jeff D. Hamann" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:02:13 -0000 I'm in the processing of putting together my new FreeBSD 6.0 (downloaded the iso image yesterday) laptop which has a Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG wireless card (as well as a firewire ethernet something?). The machine doesn't have a floppy drive and I haven't been able to build the drivers using the documentation at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html and I think the links for the two freebsd ports located at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/download.html are incorrect (maybe? both links point to the ipw-firmware). Does anyone have any instructions on how to get the wireless working without first having to use a third pccard since I can't use cvsup or download the ports as usual? I have a dual boot machine which I can read the primary ntfs partition (but not the fat32 partition -- very unhappy about that). ifconfig reports (and I typing to recreate this) fwe0: flags=108943 mtu 1500 options=8 inet6 fe80:f5ff:fe00:1c%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 02:90:f5:00:00:1c ch 1 dma 0 lo: blah, blah, blah Is that the hardwire ethernet device? This is a new laptop (sager3880) and so far the machine running xp has been really nice. I'd like to be able to run the real deal now... Jeff. --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com www.forestinformatics.com