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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:07:40 +0100
From:      "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Jonare?=" <rksah@bredband.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GENERIC + ral
Message-ID:  <3a142e750811210407i7dcf74eh4e0cf974d1179c8a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081121020459.GB1397@hel.niflheim.se>
References:  <20081121020459.GB1397@hel.niflheim.se>

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On 11/21/08, Bj=C3=B6rn Jonare <rksah@bredband.net> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Running CURRENT as of today I tried to get my Linksys WMP54G up and
> working. After some trouble with the console spewing error messages
> that the firmware couldn't be loaded I read the manpage for ral(4).
>
> Looking through the config for GENERIC I saw that there was no line
> "device ralfw". After adding that line and rebooting everything went
> fine.
>
> However, shouldn't ralfw be present in GENERIC? It won't build as a
> module and "device ral" is sort of useless if the system can't load
> card firmware. Or am I simply missing something?

# cd /sys/modules/ralfw/ && make && make install

doesn't work?



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