Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:01:42 -0800 From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: damien.bergamini@free.fr Subject: getting iwi_firmware to work Message-ID: <004101c60006$e7b60f70$0a00a8c0@rodan>
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I'm in the processing of putting together my new FreeBSD 6.0 (downloaded the iso image yesterday) laptop which has a Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG wireless card (as well as a firewire ethernet something?). The machine doesn't have a floppy drive and I haven't been able to build the drivers using the documentation at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html and I think the links for the two freebsd ports located at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/download.html are incorrect (maybe? both links point to the ipw-firmware). Does anyone have any instructions on how to get the wireless working without first having to use a third pccard since I can't use cvsup or download the ports as usual? I have a dual boot machine which I can read the primary ntfs partition (but not the fat32 partition -- very unhappy about that). ifconfig reports (and I typing to recreate this) fwe0: flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMSIC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> inet6 fe80:f5ff:fe00:1c%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 02:90:f5:00:00:1c ch 1 dma 0 lo: blah, blah, blah Is that the hardwire ethernet device? This is a new laptop (sager3880) and so far the machine running xp has been really nice. I'd like to be able to run the real deal now... Jeff. --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com www.forestinformatics.com
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