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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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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.

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