peter harrison wrote: > Thursday, 22 May 2008 at 9:13:41 +0100, Vince Hoffman said: >> Fernando Apesteguía wrote: >>> On 5/22/08, Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Fernando Apesteguía wrote: >>>>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: <snip> >>>>>> Have you read the manpage for iwi? >>>>>> >>>>> No, I tried with iwi-firmware and iwicontrol and none of them existed. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> no ports are needed the firmware is now in the base system, Just add the >>>>>> entries as specified in this snippet from man iwi >>>>>> >>>>> So... shouldn't this port be removed? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I'm pretty sure that things changed between 6.x and 7.x, I'd imagine the >>>> port is needed for <7.x >>>> >>>>>> Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the >>>>>> following lines in loader.conf(5): >>>>>> >>>>>> if_iwi_load="YES" >>>>>> wlan_load="YES" >>>>>> firmware_load="YES" >>>>>> >>>>>> In both cases, place the following lines in loader.conf(5) to load >>>> the >>>>>> firmware modules: >>>>>> >>>>>> iwi_bss_load="YES" >>>>>> iwi_ibss_load="YES" >>>>>> iwi_monitor_load="YES" >>>>>> >>>>>> and >>>>>> >>>>>> This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. For >>>>>> the loaded firmware to work the license at >>>>>> /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE must be >>>> agreed to and the >>>>>> follow-ing line be added to loader.conf(5): >>>>>> >>>>>> legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I'll try it. But AFAIK, I have to recompile the kernel cause the >>>>> "device iwi" line is missing. >>>>> >>>>> Am i right? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I think they should all be loadable as modules if they arent in generic. >>>> >>>> To try without rebooting I believe the commands you want are: >>>> kenv legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 >>>> kldload if_iwi >>>> kldload wlan >>>> kldload firmware >>>> kldload iwi_bss >>>> kldload iwi_ibss >>>> kldload iwi_monitor >>>> >>>> However, I just had a look in my /boot/kernel for the if_iwi module and its >>>> not there so you may be correct. (I'm a touch supprised as the do exist on >>>> my i386 box) >>> The same on my machine. The line is not in GENERIC and that modules >>> don't exist. I will recompile my module as soon as I have some spare >>> time. >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >> In theory you should be able to just >> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwi >> make && make install >> cd /usr/src/sys/modules/iwifw >> make && make install >> >> >> without rebuilding the entire kernel. I'm just puzzled why they dont >> build by default. > > I'm running a stock 7.0-STABLE with GENERIC and a default make.conf and I get > the iwi modules no problem. I just followed the instructions in the man page > and was up and running in 5 minutes. > > Are you running AMD64? the modules are there on my i386 laptop but not my AMD64 server (I dont use iwi on either though.)
vince > Peter Harrison > >> >> Vince >> >> >>> Best Regards >>> >>>> regards, >>>> Vince >>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
