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Date:      Mon, 9 Jan 2017 18:22:18 -0500
From:      Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin+bsd@citrin.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Edison tactic - 1.ifconfig wlan0 ssid myssid , work but some missed ,2.pkg install
Message-ID:  <8b8e732e-42cb-9337-02ad-25115a17edb8@citrin.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20170108190338.682794e7.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 01/08/17 13:03, Polytropon wrote:
>> IWN(4) states that an iwn adapter uses a lodable firmware.
>> Is it actually loaded?
> Isn't that firmware already part of the GENERIC kernel?
> If not, "man iwn" has the relevant items that should be
> added to /boot/loader.conf (or "iwnfn" for all of the
> available firmwares).
>

Firmware for iwn is build as module and can be loaded from modeles path.
There is no need to add entries to loader.conf

dmesg should contain strings like:
iwn0: iwn_read_firmware: ucode rev=0x12a80601



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