Re: Help with iwn4965fw.ko

[Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, mimo wrote:

> Hi I've installed kfreebsd on a partition of my T61. It works ok so far 
> but when I try to start wireless I get an error about missing firmware 
> for my Intel 4965 card:
>
> iwn4965fw: could not load firmware image, error 2
> iwn0: iwn_read_firmware: could not load firmare image "iwn4965fw"
> iwn0: iwn_init_locked: could not read firmware, error 22
>
> I've tried the 7.x and 8.x kernel
>
> I'm a linux sysadmin so I have no idea what I'm doing under freebsd. Can 
> someone give me a pointer on how to re-compile a module or something if 
> that's what's needed or is there a precompiled one I can just download?

Do you have the firmware-iwlwifi package installed?

I'm not entirely sure how non-free firmwares work in kFreeBSD-land, but I 
think that is the standard debian way to do it.  (Do you have debian 
GNU/linux installed on a different partion of your T61 for reference?)

-Ben Kaduk