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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Is Kernel module is the same as a device driver? Post 302522342 by newlinuxuser1 on Saturday 14th of May 2011 02:21:12 PM
Old 05-14-2011
Corona688, thank you man! My head is spinning at his point. I feel like five years old taken to a planetarium. They show you the planets on a fake night sky and it appears nice and easy, feel exciting... until you start asking them questions... they tell you that you really get it only after years of dedicated learning Smilie
I'm taking a wine break today Smilie
 

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URTWNFW(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						URTWNFW(4)

NAME
urtwnfw -- Firmware Module for Realtek Wireless driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this module into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: device urtwnfw This will include three firmware images inside the kernel. If you want to pick only the firmware image for your network adapter choose one of the following: device urtwn-rtl8192cfwT device urtwn-rtl8192cfwU device urtwn-rtl8188eufw Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): urtwn-rtl8192cfwT_load="YES" urtwn-rtl8192cfwU_load="YES" urtwn-rtl8188eufw_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
This module provides access to firmware sets for the Realtek RTL8188CUS, RTL8188CE-VAU, RTL8188EUS, RTL8188RU and RTL8192CU chip based USB WiFi adapters. It may be statically linked into the kernel, or loaded as a module. For the loaded firmware to be enabled for use the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/realtek must be agreed to by adding the following line to loader.conf(5): legal.realtek.license_ack=1 FILES
/usr/share/doc/legal/realtek urtwnfw firmware license SEE ALSO
urtwn(4), firmware(9) BSD
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