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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
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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
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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
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