Today i upgraded my work laptop to 8.0, better said reinstalled and restored, because P4M 1.5GHz would rebuild ports for days. The card was not operational afterwards, ifconfig can't scan networks, exits with error, and wpa_supplicant doesn't work, reports IOCTL error against the driver.
Note, i "restored" the system, meaning after newfs-ing the 7.2 root partition and 8.0 installation on it, i restored original relevant files to /etc tree. Therefore, the module load line and legal acknowledgment line are there.
The module dumps "ipw0 : no firmware" at debug console. Man page refers to ipwfw(4) as firmware module but there is no man page found. I found no such module in boot/kernel so i went installing the firmware via ports, in net/ipw-firmware-kmod, and the port just reported that the module is included in base install. Found the module sources in /usr/src/sys/modules/ipwfw, made a make / make install, and got three files, ipw_ibss, ipw_bss, and ipw_monitor, loaded them all before loading if_ipw, still same "no firmware" error.
Am i missing something here?
Note, i "restored" the system, meaning after newfs-ing the 7.2 root partition and 8.0 installation on it, i restored original relevant files to /etc tree. Therefore, the module load line and legal acknowledgment line are there.
The module dumps "ipw0 : no firmware" at debug console. Man page refers to ipwfw(4) as firmware module but there is no man page found. I found no such module in boot/kernel so i went installing the firmware via ports, in net/ipw-firmware-kmod, and the port just reported that the module is included in base install. Found the module sources in /usr/src/sys/modules/ipwfw, made a make / make install, and got three files, ipw_ibss, ipw_bss, and ipw_monitor, loaded them all before loading if_ipw, still same "no firmware" error.
Am i missing something here?