Hi! Matthew Franz <mdfranz@gmail.com> writes: > I noticed that the bnx firmware packages are in non-free but has > anyone used them? Installing them on kfreebsd did not have the same > effect as on standard Debian which installing the firmware .deb just > works.... > > I assume that requires the presence of the bce device? Or perhaps all > the firmware tools are linux? These firmware packages are indeed linux specific and won't work on kfreebsd unfortunately (suffering from no support for my intel wifi here myself) > I'm building a new kernel (for pfsync/carp) following the instructions here > > http://mixinet.net/~sto/blog/debian/20101130_The_FreakyWall_Part_3/ > > And my naive attempt to just add "device bce" to the config failed. You'd need to at least `exit 0` the script that cleans all the firmware blobs from the source and re-run get-orig-source (iirc it's called like that). HHaven't had success myself trying to build a kernel for my usecase however. At Debconf we were talking about the firmware thing as well and I remember someone here saying one could probably ship most of them as loadable modules so there might be something in the (hopefully not too far) future. Regards Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer
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