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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:13:10 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 193588] [PATCH] Staged malo(4) firmware module
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--- Comment #9 from Juan Ram=C3=B3n Molina Menor <info@juanmolina.eu> ---
malo(4) is the Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver. It =
is
included in GENERIC kernel. It requires a firmware kernel module that must =
be
installed through a port that it=E2=80=99s not present in the current ports=
 tree and
have to be downloaded from:
http://weongyo.org/project/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tar.gz

As this port has not been updated to conform to the new staging infrastruct=
ure,
these family of NICs cannot work in recent versions of FreeBSD.

I guess the solution should be to contact weongyo@FreeBSD.org for replacing=
 the
above mentioned file with the patched (staged) one provided by Carlos. Or m=
ove
the port to the official ports tree and change the malo(4) man page. This is
maybe not possible, as hinted in the pkg-descr file:

Marvell Libertas 88W8335 firmware files are not free because Marvell
refuses to grant distribution rights.  As a result, we need to build the
firmware using ports.

This firmware files are comed from OpenBSD malo driver.

    http://www.nazgul.ch/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tgz

Hope I understood it well and it helps,
Juan

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