svn commit: r198551 - stable/7/share/man/man4
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 28 17:41:29 UTC 2009
Author: brueffer
Date: Wed Oct 28 17:41:29 2009
New Revision: 198551
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198551
Log:
MFC: r198313
Improve the description of the malofw kernel module installation.
Modified:
stable/7/share/man/man4/ (props changed)
stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4
Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4 Wed Oct 28 17:03:20 2009 (r198550)
+++ stable/7/share/man/man4/malo.4 Wed Oct 28 17:41:29 2009 (r198551)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"/
-.Dd March 26, 2009
+.Dd October 21, 2009
.Dt MALO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -69,25 +69,21 @@ The
driver provides support for Marvell Libertas 88W8335 based PCI
network adapters.
.Pp
-This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.
-These firmware files are from the
-.Ox
-.Nm
-driver.
-.Pp
-A package for the firmware which can be installed via
-.Xr pkg_add 1
-can be found at:
+This driver requires the
+.Nm malofw
+firmware kernel module be installed before it will work.
+The firmware files are not publicly available.
+A port of the firmware can be found at:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
http://weongyo.org/project/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tar.gz
.Ed
.Pp
-This package must be installed before
-.Xr ifconfig 8
-will work.
-.Pp
-For more information on configuring this device, see
-.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+The firmware kernel module can be installed by extracting
+the archive and running
+.Ql make install clean
+in the
+.Pa malo-firmware-1.4
+directory.
.Sh HARDWARE
The following cards are among those supported by the
.Nm
More information about the svn-src-stable-7
mailing list