From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 14:59:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFA00106564A for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rksah@bredband.net) Received: from proxy2.bredband.net (proxy2.bredband.net [195.54.101.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC648FC08 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rksah@bredband.net) Received: from ironport2.bredband.com (195.54.101.122) by proxy2.bredband.net (7.3.127) id 48DC49FD01173575 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:59:36 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArY6AIJbJklV4BwGPGdsb2JhbACJGYo0AQEBATXAaoJ8 Received: from c-061ce055.246-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO _HOSTNAME_) ([85.224.28.6]) by ironport2.bredband.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2008 15:59:35 +0100 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:59:34 +0100 From: "Björn Jonare" Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:59:34 +0100 To: "Paul B. Mahol" Message-ID: <20081121145933.GA19807@hel.niflheim.se> References: <20081121020459.GB1397@hel.niflheim.se> <3a142e750811210407i7dcf74eh4e0cf974d1179c8a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3a142e750811210407i7dcf74eh4e0cf974d1179c8a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC + ral X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:59:38 -0000 On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:07:40PM +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 11/21/08, Björn Jonare 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? Works fine... I really _was_ missing something... /Björn