Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:41:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r198551 - stable/7/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <200910281741.n9SHfTCR067940@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: brueffer Date: Wed Oct 28 17:41:29 2009 New Revision: 198551 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198551 Log: MFC: r198313 Improve the description of the malofw kernel module installation. Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/ (props changed) stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4 Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4 Wed Oct 28 17:03:20 2009 (r198550) +++ stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4 Wed Oct 28 17:41:29 2009 (r198551) @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\"/ -.Dd March 26, 2009 +.Dd October 21, 2009 .Dt MALO 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -69,25 +69,21 @@ The driver provides support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI network adapters. .Pp -This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. -These firmware files are from the -.Ox -.Nm -driver. -.Pp -A package for the firmware which can be installed via -.Xr pkg_add 1 -can be found at: +This driver requires the +.Nm malofw +firmware kernel module be installed before it will work. +The firmware files are not publicly available. +A port of the firmware can be found at: .Bd -literal -offset indent http://weongyo.org/project/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tar.gz .Ed .Pp -This package must be installed before -.Xr ifconfig 8 -will work. -.Pp -For more information on configuring this device, see -.Xr ifconfig 8 . +The firmware kernel module can be installed by extracting +the archive and running +.Ql make install clean +in the +.Pa malo-firmware-1.4 +directory. .Sh HARDWARE The following cards are among those supported by the .Nm
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