Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:24:35 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: damien@FreeBSD.org Subject: RFC: New firmware ports for ipw(4) and iwi(4) Message-ID: <1142511875.823.83.camel@mayday.esat.net>
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Those of you following HEAD and RELENG_6 may have been experiencing problems with ipw(4) and iwi(4) drivers lately because it could load firmwares correctly, even if you installed net/ipw-firmware or net/iwi-firmware. If you had a look at recent changes, sam and max (heh) have been working on a firmware framework. Support has been added to HEAD/RELENG_6 some weeks ago. Recently damien committed changes to ipw(4) and iwi(4) to support firmware(9). These two ports are creating and installing kernel modules from intel firmwares. I only checked that everything compiled and installed fine, I can't try it due to a lack of decent internet connection at home. I'm planning to commit them within two days. Probably tomorrow or this afternoon if I get successful reports. If you're using ipw(4) and iwi(4) on a fresh FreeBSD system, please give it a try and follow-up. http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/ipw-firmware-kmod.shar http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/iwi-firmware-kmod.shar Since it may take some time before the distfiles hit mirrors, you can grab them here: http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/distfiles/ipw/ -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer
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