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 <free...@edvax.de> 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, ... > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
