Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:13:10 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 193588] [PATCH] Staged malo(4) firmware module Message-ID: <bug-193588-21060-gGMHqxnqrR@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-193588-21060@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-193588-21060@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193588 --- Comment #9 from Juan Ramón Molina Menor <info@juanmolina.eu> --- malo(4) is the Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver. It is included in GENERIC kernel. It requires a firmware kernel module that must be installed through a port that it’s not present in the current ports tree and have to be downloaded from: http://weongyo.org/project/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tar.gz As this port has not been updated to conform to the new staging infrastructure, these family of NICs cannot work in recent versions of FreeBSD. I guess the solution should be to contact weongyo@FreeBSD.org for replacing the above mentioned file with the patched (staged) one provided by Carlos. Or move the port to the official ports tree and change the malo(4) man page. This is maybe not possible, as hinted in the pkg-descr file: Marvell Libertas 88W8335 firmware files are not free because Marvell refuses to grant distribution rights. As a result, we need to build the firmware using ports. This firmware files are comed from OpenBSD malo driver. http://www.nazgul.ch/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tgz Hope I understood it well and it helps, Juan -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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