is there a way for someone to import a device driver from the fbsd source tree for my wirless card?

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 20:03:37 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Justin C. Sherrill
<justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> On Thu, November 6, 2008 3:21 pm, Sascha Wildner wrote:
>
>> Can you try if the ath(4) driver works for you (e.g., "kldload ath")?
>> It's not compiled into the default GENERIC kernel.
>
> Is it worth planning to have this in GENERIC for 2.2?  I figure there's
> some reason I just don't know about.

The driver contains blob.  We don't add drivers containing blob into
GENERIC (e.g. old nve).

Best Regards,
sephe

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