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From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>
To: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>
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Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: net/iwi-firmware refuses to build on 7.2-STABLE
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On Wed, 01-Jul-2009 at 13:28:57 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> 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

Yes, I know.  I don't want to load the firmware, I want to
query the state of the hardware switch which enables the
transmitter (iwicontrol iwi0 -r).

Thanks,

	-Andre

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