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Operating Systems AIX AIX hangs on boot Post 302157547 by drchris on Friday 11th of January 2008 07:24:04 AM
Old 01-11-2008
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I reinstalled everything and updated my firmware thanks to you! Hitting 5 on boot worked like a breeze! So relieved that I didnt break a £10k machine Smilie

Amazing on how nice ppl like yourselves helped me out so fast. I've yet to get a response from IBM on this! (And I doupt I would have solved it any time soon) Thanks for the help again.

C
 

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IPWFW(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  IPWFW(4)

NAME
ipwfw -- Firmware Module for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this module into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: device ipwfw This will include three firmware images inside the kernel. If you want to pick only the firmware image for the mode you want to operate your network adapter in choose one of the following: device ipwbssfw device ipwibssfw device ipwmonitorfw Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in loader.conf(5): ipw_bss_load="YES" ipw_ibss_load="YES" ipw_monitor_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
This module provides access to firmware sets for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 series of IEEE 802.11 adapters. It may be statically linked into the kernel, or loaded as a module. For the loaded firmware to be enabled for use the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE must be agreed to by adding the following line to loader.conf(5): legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 FILES
/usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE ipwfw firmware license SEE ALSO
ipw(4), firmware(9) BSD
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