Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:25:49 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi firmware Message-ID: <43E618FD.19866.207E1BAB@dan.langille.org> In-Reply-To: <200602052011.k15KBUR7014321@gate.bitblocks.com>
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On 5 Feb 2006 at 12:11, Bakul Shah wrote: > man iwi says install ports/net/iwi-firmware. > (cd port/net/iwi-firmware; make) says > ===> iwi-firmware-2.4_2 is configured with iwicontrol(8) which you don't need. > > /usr/ports and /sys are uptodate. > > What is the correct procedure for putting iwi firmware file > in /boot/firmware? Also, is there a way to find out which > version of firmware is loaded? I did just that this morning on FreeBDS 6.0. During the port install, it mentions this: ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f /boot/firmware/ipw.fw As for loading at boot time, I created /etc/start_if.ipw0 and put this into it: ifconfig ipw0 ssid DansSecretSSID ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f /boot/firmware/ipw.fw FWIW, I've so far found ipw to be much more stable under 6.0 than it was under -currnent. Search the archives for my surname and ipw to see how much fun I was having then with frequent freeze-ups that required reboots to get anywhere. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php
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