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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-03-05 11:52:17 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2007-03-05 11:52:17 +0000
commit2de8c2110731d440f878077ada5e5ee94dfe49ad (patch)
treeb840a1a3b5850c0530b786bafd93018220291a19
parentb444fd4080fd554b714b7eb8725851d47ac6a129 (diff)
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The firmware files are included in the base system now, reflect this here..
While here, remove Xrefs to all other wlan drivers except the Intel ones, these often get confused. Also remove pointers to the old ipw and iwi webpages, they don't include any useful information that's not in the manpages yet. Reviewed by: flz, ru
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ipw.436
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/iwi.439
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ipw.4 b/share/man/man4/ipw.4
index 0319476..6ecee73 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ipw.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ipw.4
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 28, 2006
+.Dd March 5, 2007
.Os
.Dt IPW 4
.Sh NAME
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ module at boot time, place the following lines in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if_ipw_load="YES"
+ipw_bss_load="YES"
+ipw_ibss_load="YES"
+ipw_monitor_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"
.Ed
@@ -66,11 +69,18 @@ For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Pp
This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.
-You need to install the
-.Pa ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod
-port before
-.Xr ifconfig 8
-will work.
+For the loaded firmware to work the license at
+.Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE
+must be agreed to and the following line be added to
+.Xr loader.conf 5 :
+.Pp
+.Dl "legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1"
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE" -compact
+.It Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE
+.Nm
+firmware license
+.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
.Pp
@@ -108,9 +118,10 @@ This should not happen.
The driver failed to load the firmware image using the
.Xr firmware 9
subsystem.
-Verify that the
-.Pa ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod
-port is installed correctly.
+Verify that the necessary firmware modules are loaded and the
+license agreement
+.Xr loader 8
+tunable has been set.
.It "ipw%d: could not load microcode"
An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed.
This should not happen.
@@ -120,17 +131,10 @@ This should not happen.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr altq 4 ,
-.Xr an 4 ,
-.Xr ath 4 ,
.Xr iwi 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
-.Xr wi 4 ,
.Xr wlan 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
-.Rs
-.%T The IPW Web Page
-.%O http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/
-.Re
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
diff --git a/share/man/man4/iwi.4 b/share/man/man4/iwi.4
index 90da6eb..858df80 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/iwi.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/iwi.4
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 17, 2006
+.Dd March 5, 2007
.Os
.Dt IWI 4
.Sh NAME
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device iwi"
+.Cd "device iwi_bss"
+.Cd "device iwi_ibss"
+.Cd "device iwi_monitor"
.Cd "device pci"
.Cd "device wlan"
.Cd "device firmware"
@@ -47,6 +50,9 @@ module at boot time, place the following lines in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
if_iwi_load="YES"
+iwi_bss_load="YES"
+iwi_ibss_load="YES"
+iwi_monitor_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"
.Ed
@@ -66,11 +72,18 @@ For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Pp
This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.
-You need to install the
-.Pa ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod
-port before
-.Xr ifconfig 8
-will work.
+For the loaded firmware to work the license at
+.Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE
+must be agreed to and the following line be added to
+.Xr loader.conf 5 :
+.Pp
+.Dl "legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1"
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE" -compact
+.It Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE
+.Nm
+firmware license
+.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
.Pp
@@ -108,9 +121,10 @@ This should not happen.
The driver failed to load the firmware image using the
.Xr firmware 9
subsystem.
-Verify that the
-.Pa ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod
-port is installed correctly.
+Verify that the necessary firmware modules are loaded and the
+license agreement
+.Xr loader 8
+tunable has been set.
.It "iwi%d: could not load boot firmware"
An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller
failed.
@@ -125,17 +139,10 @@ This should not happen.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr altq 4 ,
-.Xr an 4 ,
-.Xr ath 4 ,
.Xr ipw 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
-.Xr wi 4 ,
.Xr wlan 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
-.Rs
-.%T The IWI Web Page
-.%O http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/
-.Re
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
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