Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030 From: David Walker <davidianwalker@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd@edvax.de Subject: Re: Simple question about pkg_add ... Message-ID: <CABE=bROJUvXZ%2B6Uvive6O=H%2BUUFJQ4TNx0PxhVfNdq1QZxXq9Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120228172808.c0754b14.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CABE=bRNRs6Rv5bL1fo49c8oiMvhT%2BCH1pYVL3Sd29qu3%2B96rdw@mail.gmail.com> <20120228172808.c0754b14.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. I'm so unfamiliar with pkg_add I'm not sure if that is normal. I'm very new here. Certainly it's not in a suitable format for pkg_add to deal with. I guess pkg_add is the preferred option for firmware installation. I'll contact the maintainer. On 29/02/2012, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:52:13 +1030, David Walker wrote: >> Hey. >> >> I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. >> From upgt(4) ... >> >> This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it >> will >> work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of >> the >> firmware which can be installed via pkg_add(1) is available: >> >> http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz >> >> pkg_add http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz >> Fetching http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz... >> Done. >> pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a >> package? > > Did you have a look at what's inside the .tar.gz file? > A directory upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0 with the following > files: Makefile, distinfo, pkg-descr, and pkg-plist. > > Obviously, that's not a binary package for pkg_add use. > It's a port. > > Extract the file and use it with the port infrastructure > (i. e. "make install"). > > Seems that the instruction in "man 4 upgt" is just missing > the proper terminology... > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >
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