Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:41:10 +0200 From: Patrick =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= <patfbsd@davenulle.org> To: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Message-ID: <20090422234110.254367fa@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470904221404h7c80263cl3ce20d41f3c81b5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470904221204v23093c9di9cd38e826046d969@mail.gmail.com> <20090422225551.1cf1b52f@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> <b6c05a470904221404h7c80263cl3ce20d41f3c81b5b@mail.gmail.com>
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Le Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:04:41 -0400, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>: > After re-reading man iwi, I noticed that it says: > > "This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. You > need to obtain iwicontrol(8) from the IWI web page listed below to > accomplish loading the firmware before ifconfig(8) will work." > > I'm going to look into this. Sounds like this may be the problem. Do > you think so? No, before FreeBSD 7 you needed to download the firmware. There is a port in /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware but it is only for FreeBSD < 7 You don't need anything on FreeBSD 7.x and you it seems you are not using the right manual page for 7.1: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwi&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html Regards.
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