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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:01:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        jason <jason@ec.rr.com>
Cc:        current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: beta7 fails to load if_rl.ko on a clean install
Message-ID:  <20041011185954.W34886@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <41662361.2050501@ec.rr.com>
References:  <41662361.2050501@ec.rr.com>

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, jason wrote:

> I just installed beta7 on a new computer to night and could not get the
> wireless pci card from linksys to work.  I found out it was a realtek
> chip inside it with the linksys model wmp54g.  When I found out it was a
> 1839(I think that was it) I tried the if_rl driver and it bombed with
> something like:
>
> module rl/miibus failed to register: 17

This is pretty normal; 17 is EEXISTS, and considering it miibus, its
probably whining that the miibus bits are already loaded.

The rl driver does not support wireless cards.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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