Re: kern/52411: Cannot load iwn0 firmware (Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:59:40 -0400
    From:        Donald Allen <donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <CAPsTYbwFbj6XaEF8x=-X=XJDUaP56a6gWQSaCbrTYO=TC=QGsA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>

  | So I think
  | it's reasonable to assume that I had the same firmware files you do,

Not necessarily, it may just be that your particular hardware is not
supported in NetBSD 7 - which model iwn is it?

Over time, more chipsets have been supported, and the number of firmware
files has grown.

Earlier (though I don't remember how far back) there were apparent
licensing issues with the files - it was thought that we were unable
to distribute them, hence the requirement (in the past) to install them
from pkgsrc.   That question has since been cleared up.

kre