GENERIC + ral

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 11/21/08, Björn Jonare <rksah at bredband.net> wrote:
> 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
>

ralfw is currently disconnected from the build, for reasons yet to found...

-- 
Paul