From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 14:50:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8027510656D7 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:50:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520FB8FC18 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn34 with SMTP id 34so91409iwn.13 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.176.79 with SMTP id bd15mr2109047ibb.151.1283957425995; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:50:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.146.12 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:49:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201009081044.41114.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> References: <201009072224.58398.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <201009081044.41114.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:49:54 -0400 Message-ID: To: Steven Friedrich Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BWN driver error messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:50:27 -0000 On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steven Friedrich w= rote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:21:44 Eitan Adler wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Steven Friedrich > wrote: >> > On Tuesday 07 September 2010 21:46:43 Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> When I attempt to use the if_bwn driver I get the following messages: >> >> >> >> Is my card not supported or am I missing a step or is it something el= se? >> >> ... >> >> > You need a package or port of: >> > =C2=A0bwn-firmware-kmod-0.1.0 Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11 Firmware K= ernel >> > Module >> >> The closest port I find is >> >> net/bwi-firmware-kmod >> >> >> # locate bwn-|grep ports|wc -l >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A00 >> >> When I searched for firmware using make quicksearch key=3D"firmware" I >> found net/bwn-firmware-kmod but it does not exist >> >> ls -lao /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod >> ls: /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod: No such file or directory > > I'm sorry, I read your post too quickly and missed where you clearly stat= ed > the problem. > > You said: >> ls: /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod: No such file or directory > This indicates that you need to update your ports tree. =C2=A0Do you know= how? > [root@AlphaBeta ~ ]# !portsn [root@AlphaBeta ~ ]# portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Removing old files and directories... done. Extracting new files: Building new INDEX files... done. [root@AlphaBeta ~ ]# grep "REFUSE" /etc/portsnap.conf # can cause problems due to missing dependencies. If you have REFUSE REFUSE arabic chinese french german hungarian japanese REFUSE korean polish portuguese russian ukrainian vietnamese --=20 Eitan Adler