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The firmware files are included in the base system now, reflect this here..

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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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Christian Brueffer 2007-03-05 11:52:17 +00:00
parent 2f1b6e8bb5
commit 4c55d3dc27
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share/man/man4/ipw.4
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@ -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

39
share/man/man4/iwi.4
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@ -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