getting iwi_firmware to work

"Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:01:42 -0800

I'm in the processing of putting together my new FreeBSD 6.0 (downloaded the 
iso image yesterday) laptop which has a Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG wireless 
card (as well as a firewire ethernet something?). The machine doesn't have a 
floppy drive and I haven't been able to build the drivers using the 
documentation at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ipw-freebsd.html and I 
think the links for the two freebsd ports located at 
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/download.html are incorrect (maybe? both 
links point to the ipw-firmware).
Does anyone have any instructions on how to get the wireless working without 
first having to use a third pccard since I can't use cvsup or download the 
ports as usual? I have a dual boot machine which I can read the primary ntfs 
partition  (but not the fat32 partition -- very unhappy about that).
ifconfig reports (and I typing to recreate this)
fwe0: 
flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMSIC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 
1500

   options=8<VLAN_MTU>

   inet6 fe80:f5ff:fe00:1c%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

   ether 02:90:f5:00:00:1c

   ch 1 dma 0

lo: blah, blah, blah
Is that the hardwire ethernet device? This is a new laptop (sager3880) and 
so far the machine running xp has been really nice. I'd like to be able to 
run the real deal now...
Jeff.
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Jeff D. Hamann
Forest Informatics, Inc.
PO Box 1421
Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421
541-754-1428
jeff.hamann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.forestinformatics.com
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