BWN driver error messages
Steven Friedrich
FreeBSD at insightbb.com
Wed Sep 8 14:44:43 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:21:44 Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD at insightbb.com>
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 September 2010 21:46:43 Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> When I attempt to use the if_bwn driver I get the following messages:
> >>
> >> Is my card not supported or am I missing a step or is it something else?
>
> ...
>
> > You need a package or port of:
> > bwn-firmware-kmod-0.1.0 Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11 Firmware Kernel
> > Module
>
> The closest port I find is
>
> net/bwi-firmware-kmod
>
>
> # locate bwn-|grep ports|wc -l
> 0
>
> When I searched for firmware using make quicksearch key="firmware" I
> found net/bwn-firmware-kmod but it does not exist
>
> ls -lao /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod
> ls: /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod: No such file or directory
I'm sorry, I read your post too quickly and missed where you clearly stated
the problem.
You said:
> ls: /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod: No such file or directory
This indicates that you need to update your ports tree. Do you know how?
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