Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:20:14 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers [regression!] Message-ID: <20060410212014.7ebfdae7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200604102058.25742.max@love2party.net> References: <E1FLRfM-000PcS-00._pppp-mail-ru@f11.mail.ru> <yged5fp4tvu.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <20060410190049.4b6ad9a5@localhost> <200604102058.25742.max@love2party.net>
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--Sig_aK2s994X+8fNLmYcp+8YJke Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 19:00, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > New iwi driver loads firmware automatically. You need to install > > > ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod instead of ports/net/iwi-firmware. > > > If you are using RELENG_6, you need to specify -DTESTING to an > > > argument of make(1) when building iwi-firmware-kmod. > > > > I did that on 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #1: Sun Apr 9 20:07:42 CEST 2006 > > and know I have the following modules available: > > > > fk@TP51 /boot/kernel $ls /boot/kernel/*iwi* > > /boot/kernel/if_iwiNG.ko* /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko* > > /boot/kernel/iwi_boot.ko* /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko* > > /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko* > > > > Is there still something missing? No matter which module I try > > to kldload first, it always fails with messages like: > > > > KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available > > KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available > > KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available > > KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available > > KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available > > KLD iwi_ibss.ko: depends on firmware - not available > > KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available >=20 > This refers to the firmware(9) module that supplies basic support for > firmware loading and should be part of RELENG_6 for a long time > already. How did you install that kernel? To fix it you can do: >=20 > # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/firmware; make all install clean >=20 > which should give you /boot/kernel/firmware.ko. Nontheless it would > be interesting why this isn't there already. Thanks for the quick reply, it's working now. I'm using MODULES_OVERRIDE and didn't need firmware(9) until now. I assumed "depends on firmware" was referring to some missing iwi firmware, sorry for the noise.=20 Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_aK2s994X+8fNLmYcp+8YJke Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEOq/9jV8GA4rMKUQRAryyAKCtNiHpZag2FNEGj0EgID+H5jhpqACePGwY tvsnXJJAKil4f3eK7fyMf+4= =kTKT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_aK2s994X+8fNLmYcp+8YJke--
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