From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 29 02:11:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D3C106566B for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:11:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidianwalker@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE008FC12 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so1391775iah.13 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of davidianwalker@gmail.com designates 10.50.207.4 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.50.207.4; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of davidianwalker@gmail.com designates 10.50.207.4 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=davidianwalker@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=davidianwalker@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.50.207.4]) by 10.50.207.4 with SMTP id ls4mr5229975igc.33.1330481506417 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:11:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=pYhY1JeP+D+i/c/t6btQocMQE33R7TBa1D11qlSLSp4=; b=QP2uiEjgQHS4bKycZhwTzZYt6rexIdpqPuweduL2is4rRxltCPcUFa3DEqvFKk2VJR v8EdhI01yDU1uu4jinp0tWxGTZcEVCN96zDB1/yhwNB3qoj6zFGeQGB35smPrCEg5yfc Oe1rqMK5xEDaobyR+9ft/574dVHZckvlBqCTY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.207.4 with SMTP id ls4mr4355354igc.33.1330481506376; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.96.6 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:11:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120228172808.c0754b14.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20120228172808.c0754b14.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030 Message-ID: From: David Walker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd@edvax.de Subject: Re: Simple question about pkg_add ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:11:47 -0000 Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. I'm so unfamiliar with pkg_add I'm not sure if that is normal. I'm very new here. Certainly it's not in a suitable format for pkg_add to deal with. I guess pkg_add is the preferred option for firmware installation. I'll contact the maintainer. On 29/02/2012, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:52:13 +1030, David Walker wrote: >> Hey. >> >> I believe I have a pcmcia card that requires upgt firmware. >> From upgt(4) ... >> >> This driver requires the upgtfw firmware to be installed before it >> will >> work. The firmware files are not publicly available. A package of >> the >> firmware which can be installed via pkg_add(1) is available: >> >> http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz >> >> pkg_add http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz >> Fetching http://weongyo.org/project/upgt/upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0.tar.gz... >> Done. >> pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file '+CONTENTS' - not a >> package? > > Did you have a look at what's inside the .tar.gz file? > A directory upgt-firmware-2.13.1.0 with the following > files: Makefile, distinfo, pkg-descr, and pkg-plist. > > Obviously, that's not a binary package for pkg_add use. > It's a port. > > Extract the file and use it with the port infrastructure > (i. e. "make install"). > > Seems that the instruction in "man 4 upgt" is just missing > the proper terminology... > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >