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As of today(November 12, 2008) ale(4) was committed to
HEAD. CURRENT users should use ale(4) in head instead of
files in this directory. The following instructions only
applys to stable/7 users.
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Building ale(4) driver on FreeBSD stable/7.
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ale(4) was MFCed to stable/7 on November 24, 2008 so the
following instructions apply only to old stable/7 users not
having latest stable/7.
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Download the following files or tar.gz file.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_ale.c
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alereg.h
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alevar.h
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/Makefile
or
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081114.tar.gz

Note, if you find updated if_ale.c/if_alereg.h/if_alevar.h
files in this directory, please use that files instead of
tar ball.

and build ale(4) kernel module. You have kernel sources
installed on your system in order to build ale(4).

How to build for stable/7:
  #cd /path/to/downloaded_files
  #make
  #kldload ./if_ale.ko
  #ifconfig ale0 inet x.x.x.x netmask y.y.y.y

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Thanks.