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Date:      Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:52:54 +0100
From:      Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Troubles getting firmware for ipw (wifi) driver to load [SOLVED]
Message-ID:  <4386DEF6.7040801@nieser.net>
In-Reply-To: <43864B2C.3020708@nieser.net>
References:  <43864B2C.3020708@nieser.net>

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Hans Nieser wrote:

> I found this in the 
> portstree at net/ipw-firmware, but it won't install saying:
> 
> root@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.



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