The following reply was made to PR kern/36457; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: jaromir.capik@nwt.cz
Subject: Re: kern/36457: ral0 wifi driver - could not open microcode
 ral-rt2591s
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:36:34 +0200

 On Thu,  7 Jun 2007 20:25:01 +0000 (UTC)
 jaromir.capik@nwt.cz wrote:
 
 > ral0: could not open microcode ral-rt2561s
 > ral0: cannot assign link-local address
 > ral0: could not open microcode ral-rt2561s
 > ral0: could not open microcode ral-rt2561s
 > ral0: cannot assign link-local address
 > ral0: could not open microcode ral-rt2561s
 > ral0: could not open microcode ral-rt2561s
 > 
 > I tried to copy RT2561.bin, RT2561S.bin, RT2661.bin files from original driver CD to /etc/firmware and rename it to ral-rt2561, ral-rt2561s, ral-rt2661, but it is still writing the same error.
 
 The correct directory is /libdata/firmware/driver, and you should
 have already the ral(4) firmware files like others using NetBSD:
 
 $ ls -l /libdata/firmware/ral/                                                                        
 total 50
 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   869 Jun  7  2006 ral-license
 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  8192 Jun  4  2006 ral-rt2561
 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  8192 Jun  4  2006 ral-rt2561s
 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  8192 Jun  4  2006 ral-rt2661
 $
 
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