Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 15:19:09 +0300 From: "Eugene M. Minkovskii" <emin@mccme.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: WiFi ipw howto? Message-ID: <20061104121909.GA20438@mccme.ru>
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Hello!
I'm use FreeBSD CURRENT, ${OSVERSION} is 700024
So, I have laptop HP Compaq nc6320 whith WiFi adapter Intel 3945ABG.
When I turning on my WiFi using button on the laptop, I see in
dmesg following:
| # dmesg tail:
| ugen0: <Broadcom Corp HP Integrated Module, class 224/1, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3> on uhub5
Now, I find following site for configure my FreeBSD:
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html
In this site I see that I should build the port net/ipw-firmware.
But I read in /usr/ports/UPDATING:
| 20060418:
| AFFECTS: users of net/{ipw,iwi}-firmware
| AUTHOR: flz@FreeBSD.org
|
| Some changes in the way ipw(4) and iwi(4) work lead to fundamental
| changes in ipw-firmware and iwi-firmware ports. Since these drivers
| are now using loadable kernel modules as firmware, two new ports have
| been created: net/ipw-firmware-kmod and net/iwi-firmware-kmod.
|
| You should not be able to install the wrong one since detection is
| based on your FreeBSD version. Trying to install the wrong port will
| result in an error message (port marked as IGNORE).
And when I trying to run make in this port, I get following
error:
| # cd /usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware/
| # make
|
| ===> ipw-firmware-1.3_8 is now obsolete,
| install net/ipw-firmware-kmod instead.
|
| *** Error code 1
|
| Stop in /usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware.
Ok, now I trying to build ipw-firmware-kmod:
| # cd /usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod/
| # make
| ===> ipw-firmware-kmod-1.3_1 needs fresh ipw(4),
| install net/ipw-firmware instead.
| *** Error code 1
|
| Stop in /usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod.
This looks like a joke... So in the
/usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod/Makefile I find folliwing lines:
| .if !( ${OSVERSION} > ${MIN7OSVERSION} || \
| ( ${OSVERSION} < 700000 && ${OSVERSION} >= ${MIN6OSVERSION} ) )
| IGNORE= needs fresh ${DRIVERNAME}(4), install net/${DRIVERNAME}-firmware instead
| .endif
My ${OSVERSION} is 700024, ${MIN6OSVERSION} and ${MIN7OSVERSION}
are 999999. It's seems to me this is a bug, and exclamation
should be removed...
Does anybody know whete I can find FRESH howto about installation
of this drivers? Why I see USB messages about ugen, when I
turning on WiFi adapter? What should I do to configure WiFi?
--
Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii
Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский
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