New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers [regression!]

[Fabian Keil]

Max Laier <max at love2party.net> wrote:

> On Monday 10 April 2006 19:00, Fabian Keil wrote:
> > Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume at freebsd.org> wrote:

> > > New iwi driver loads firmware automatically.  You need to install
> > > ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod instead of ports/net/iwi-firmware.
> > > If you are using RELENG_6, you need to specify -DTESTING to an
> > > argument of make(1) when building iwi-firmware-kmod.
> >
> > I did that on 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #1: Sun Apr 9 20:07:42 CEST 2006
> > and know I have the following modules available:
> >
> > fk at TP51 /boot/kernel $ls /boot/kernel/*iwi*
> > /boot/kernel/if_iwiNG.ko*    /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko*
> > /boot/kernel/iwi_boot.ko*    /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko*
> > /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko*
> >
> > Is there still something missing? No matter which module I try
> > to kldload first, it always fails with messages like:
> >
> > KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> > KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> > KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> > KLD if_iwiNG.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> > KLD iwi_bss.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> > KLD iwi_ibss.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> > KLD iwi_boot.ko: depends on firmware - not available
> 
> This refers to the firmware(9) module that supplies basic support for
> firmware loading and should be part of RELENG_6 for a long time
> already.  How did you install that kernel?  To fix it you can do:
> 
> # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/firmware; make all install clean
> 
> which should give you /boot/kernel/firmware.ko.  Nontheless it would
> be interesting why this isn't there already.

Thanks for the quick reply, it's working now.

I'm using MODULES_OVERRIDE and didn't need firmware(9)
until now. I assumed "depends on firmware" was referring to
some missing iwi firmware, sorry for the noise. 

Fabian
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