Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:31:05 +0000 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> Cc: plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to load iwi firmware for wpa_supplicant? Message-ID: <20050920113105.1afb8d7d.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <20050920082740.GA29652@droopy.unibe.ch> References: <200509142146.42969.plosher@plosh.net> <200509191617.49953.plosher@plosh.net> <20050920091648.41e2bf16.lists@yazzy.org> <20050920082740.GA29652@droopy.unibe.ch>
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:27:40 +0200 Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:16:48AM +0200, Marcin Jessa wrote: > > > > Why are you loading the module at all and not compile it into your kernel? > > The firmware has to be loaded in addition of the module. When and how > to load the firmware is the problem, not when and how to load the > kernel module.o > I just load it within an rc.d script and iwi is compiled into my kernel, but I don't use WEP/WPA encryption. I'd just add a function to /etc/rc which is the first thing /sbin/init executes or add a custom script to rc.d which executes before wpa_supplicant. The only thing you'd have to remember is you have the script there performing mergemaster. There are really so many possibilities. Marcin.
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