trouble with urtwn

Rui Paulo rpaulo at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 9 19:21:17 UTC 2014


On 8 Mar 2014, at 14:51, Tom Everett <tom at khubla.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon.
> 
> I've got a urtwn device and this in my /boot/loader.conf
> 
> console="comconsole"
> 
> legal.realtek.license_ack=1
> 
> if_urtwn_load="YES"
> 
> However when I issue a scan request like this
> 
> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev urtwn0
> 
> ifconfig wlan0 up scan
> 
> I get this on the console.
> 
> urtwn-rtl8192cfwT: You need to read the LICENSE file in
> /usr/share/doc/legal/realtek/.
> urtwn-rtl8192cfwT: If you agree with the license, set
> legal.realtek.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (urtwn_rtl8192cfwT_fw, 0xc76fc4f0, 0) error 1
> urtwn-rtl8192cfwT: could not load firmware image, error 8
> urtwn0: failed loadfirmware of file urtwn-rtl8192cfwT
> 
> Have I missed a step?

You either need to reboot after changing /boot/loader.conf or you need to do "kenv legal.realtek.license_ack=1".

--
Rui Paulo





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