Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:49:54 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BWN driver error messages Message-ID: <AANLkTinoKxtLWnpWYx1ny=r2OMLNBQOJAPJD1rkk07a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201009081044.41114.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> References: <AANLkTi=XfUJWOYs3VKzXw=ZOyQJ0vFVp-n9bfGhnD5%2BY@mail.gmail.com> <201009072224.58398.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <AANLkTincNzg9P=WN68TJ10K11zN0RBeD7chWBMTiftFZ@mail.gmail.com> <201009081044.41114.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com> w= rote: > 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 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
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