Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:22:20 +0100 From: Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Troubles getting firmware for ipw (wifi) driver to load Message-ID: <43864B2C.3020708@nieser.net>
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Hi list, I'm trying to setup wireless networking with WPA for my Dell Inspiron 510m, which is equipped with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI NIC on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. I'm following this guide: http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html (Also with the handbook chapter on wireless networking on the side) I am encountering troubles when executing the command "ifconfig ipw0 up scan", it doesn't list any APs at all. Looking at my dmesg output, it seems that ipw0 needs a firmware. ipw0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI> mem 0xfcffe000-0xfcffefff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci1 ipw0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:f1:52:fe:88 ipw0: Please load firmware Not knowing exactly what that meant I checked ipw(4) and it does indeed say I need ipwcontrol to load the firmware. I found this in the portstree at net/ipw-firmware, but it won't install saying: root@aphax-laptop:/usr/ports/net/ipw-firmware# make install clean ===> ipw-firmware-1.3_4 ipw(4) support is already included in your tree. ===> Cleaning for ipw-firmware-1.3_4 Yet ipwcontrol is nowhere to be found (tried to locate it with an updated DB, but no luck). It's not there in the output of pkg_version either. I did however CTRL+C right after the options screen when trying to install this port the first time because I forgot to check the option. Maybe this broke things, but I did try make clean / make distclean / make config to try ti fix it but alas.. maybe it really isn't supposed to install. So this leaves the question, how do I load the firmware? Should I manually download the thing, or is there some way I can make the port work?
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