GENERIC + ral

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 04:07:42 PST 2008


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?


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