Mention that using ports/net/malo-firmware-kmod to install the firmware.

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Kevin Lo 2015-06-24 09:28:43 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"/
.Dd September 20, 2014
.Dd June 24, 2015
.Dt MALO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -69,30 +69,12 @@ Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Pp
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
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.
.Pp
To load the
.Nm malofw
firmware kernel module at boot time, place the following
line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
malofw_load="YES"
.Ed
This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.
The
.Pa ports/net/malo-firmware-kmod
port needs to be installed before
.Xr ifconfig 8
will work.
.Sh HARDWARE
The following cards are among those supported by the
.Nm