Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:38:15 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: Sunil Kumar <sunil_tv@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 2200bg wireless lan support in FreeBSD6.0 stable release Message-ID: <43718B47.5020201@alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <20051108202456.16719.qmail@web30010.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051108202456.16719.qmail@web30010.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 11/09/05 04:24 Sunil Kumar said the following: > 1. Is there a document/help site where the steps are documented? http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html > 2. If I execute "kldload -v if_iwi" then in the dmesg output, i get a > message saying "download firmware". What firmware should i have to > download? I cannot use ports collection(pkg_add or make install clean) install /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware, but... > because that laptop does not have ethernet connection(I think there is > no support for the Marvell Yukon 88E80836 chipset). ...since you dont have a network up and running, that may be a problem. do check if the iwi-firmware package is available on one of the 6.0 ISO CDROMs. > 3.If is execute this command " iwicontrol -i iwi0 -d > /usr/local/libdata/if_iwi -m bss" i get a error message that this iwicontrol is installed as part of iwi-firmware. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
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