trouble with urtwn

[Tom Everett]

Just to close the loop, the bug was mine.  In the Crochet-FreeBSD
configuration I had /boot/loader.conf, and it was properly configured.
 Unfortunately I didn't have a /boot/loader.rc, so loader.conf was never
loaded.



On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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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