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Subject: Re: BWN driver error messages
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On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:49:54 Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com> 
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:21:44 Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Steven Friedrich
> >> <FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
> > 
> > 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
> >> >> else?
> >> 
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> > You need a package or port of:
> >> >  bwn-firmware-kmod-0.1.0 Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11 Firmware Kernel
> >> > Module
> >> 
> >> The closest port I find is
> >> 
> >> net/bwi-firmware-kmod
> >> 
> >> 
> >> # locate bwn-|grep ports|wc -l
> >>        0
> >> 
> >> When I searched for firmware using make quicksearch key="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
> > stated 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.  Do 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

I'm not familiar with portsnap, so I'll let someone else troublehoot that.
But I want to mention that the port was added to the tree six months ago...