From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 31 10:13:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1A3058A for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8D95A46 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s9VADAMs005433 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:13:10 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 193588] [PATCH] Staged malo(4) firmware module Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:13:10 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Ports Tree X-Bugzilla-Component: Individual Port(s) X-Bugzilla-Version: Latest X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Many People X-Bugzilla-Who: info@juanmolina.eu X-Bugzilla-Status: Needs Triage X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:13:11 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D193588 --- Comment #9 from Juan Ram=C3=B3n Molina Menor --- 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=E2=80=99s 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 infrastruct= ure, 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 m= ove 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 --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.=