Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG on FreeBSD 6.2

December 24, 2007

Needed:
* FreeBSD ports;
* A Ethernet card in order to fetch firmware from the net;
Installing firmware and related stuff for our network card:
# cd /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware
# cd /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod
# make install clean

Now we can load if_iwi.ko:
# kldload if_iwi

If your card is correctly recognized, dmesg should print something like that:
iwi0: <intel (R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG> mem 0xxxxxxxxx-0xxxxxxxx irq xx at […]

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