WLAN doesn't work

Thomas Schlesinger schlesinger at netcologne.de
Wed Apr 12 13:47:34 PDT 2006


Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 22:35 schrieb joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:34:00PM +0200, Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
> > thanks for your reply. I didn't install the iwi_firmware. How can I it? I
> > can't install it with pkg_add (I'm a litke bit confused about installing
> > software, as I've encountered some days ago, that the handbook was
> > outdated in case of software installation).
>
> You have to get the firmware manually, either from
> http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/iwifw/ or by building the package
> manually. I'm not allowed to redistribute binary packages due to Intel's
> broken license.
>
> Joerg

Joerg,

I've downloaded and extracted the file, but don't know what to do with the 
three files ipw2200-bss.fw, ipw2200-ibss.fw and ipw2200-sniffer.fw. Whis 
steps must I do next?

Thomas





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