Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:27:14 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Subject: Re: if_iwi problem Message-ID: <200601281927.25816.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <43DBB428.7040604@gmx.de> References: <43DBAFB6.5020304@gmx.de> <200601281905.45519.max@love2party.net> <43DBB428.7040604@gmx.de>
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--nextPart11617837.NgVxctXx3t Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:12, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > I will try this. Your efforts are appreciated. > Does the license really allow you to include the firmware into the driver? I don't include it in the driver. It's in a module of it's own. In=20 production these modules will come from ports and should be installed=20 in /boot/modules - not problem whatsoever. As far as I read the license it= =20 might even be possible to have it on installation CDs. I am not a lawyer a= nd=20 will thus leave that for others to discuss. As far as this tarball is=20 concerned. I have the LICENSE in the same location as the firmware so I do= =20 what it asks for. Please tell me if I'm mistaken. > Max Laier wrote: > > On Saturday 28 January 2006 18:53, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >> I've got two problems with if_iwi. > >> > >> While active I permanently get the error message: > >> iwi0: unknown notification type 15 > >> > >> And the command: > >> # ifconfig iwi0 scan > >> doesn't work. There are no scan results, and if I establish a connecti= on > >> manually it might even hang. > >> > >> Just so you know, I did not forget to load the firmware. > > > > Could you try the version of the driver from: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/firmware-20060125.tgz > > > > It has several fixes and a completely reworked firmware loading. To use > > it you have to do the following: > > 1) copy the contents of the above tarball over your source tree > > 2) apply sys/conf/kmod.mk.diff > > 3) build and install modules/firmware and modules/iwi_fw > > 4) build and load modules/iwi > > > > With this you don't need iwicontrol etc. anymore. Firmware is > > automatically fetched from the iwi_fw modules. > > > > I'm going to commit the firmware loading part shortly and will look at > > importing the iwi changes later. Would appreciate feedback. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart11617837.NgVxctXx3t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD27eNXyyEoT62BG0RAiFVAJ4kiN8DO4kp1pS+SgR9adMnkJmlagCcDyH1 D3/vV6tgTgDo1bwjklRKxLk= =yQyL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11617837.NgVxctXx3t--
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