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Old August 7th, 2009, 04:50
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Hi, all:

I am new in driver installation. Can anyone tell me the detailed steps to install a wireless driver?

I want to install iwn driver on FreeBSD 7.2. I download the driver from http://people.freebsd.org/~gavin/iwn-7/iwn-7.tgz.
However, I don't know how to compile the driver. I find two directories under the packet: "share" and "sys". Where should I extract the packet to, "/usr/src/sys"? Should I recompile the kernel? Or use "configure", "make", "make "install"?

After I add "device iwn" to kernel configuration file and compile the kernel, error: device "iwn" is unknown.

Thank you.
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Old August 7th, 2009, 08:05
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I think this package should have either README or INSTALL files inside it.
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Old August 7th, 2009, 15:48
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Don't bother with that patch. It doesn't work. Rather upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0. iwn works wonderfully on 8.0.
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Maybe load as module, and need load firmware.
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Old August 9th, 2009, 09:25
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Problem solved. But face a new problem. create another thread
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