GENERIC + ral

Björn Jonare rksah at bredband.net
Fri Nov 21 06:59:38 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:07:40PM +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 11/21/08, Björn Jonare <rksah at 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?

Works fine... I really _was_ missing something...

/Björn


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