From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 22 19:40:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D059EF92 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 19:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x22b.google.com (mail-wg0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDA7607 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 19:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c11so1629823wgh.22 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 12:40:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=151dAAVzVJyZ+GXtSA2yuIT7R/q1LjaHpEPgkHklsNk=; b=eveyjWr/d4StRSN/XjfmWz4eqMR4KiwxKivZfNvd8f0aycih4Lzb4bDCrOH2EcZHyb ELHHgVBnLXRmHTa+sweCJurxaPpqK3nEdn/kFP3dEvtB61jYUj6bo7ucMZrwYMHM2QTl vqcOfwEVTIlKw+ZxAAylSJu/05zKi9A2cl9cQDVD7lF5+xj/9JI0G8oL4AZ9ay/8jCaV Y0klnKh7ttsFEnPyJRSOdRqZbT3wvVoxxNzHHAv51pzNIOJzSNv90VE7dNvHAhbH6ucG Pd8ZCU+G8C7iWK+ROXX+5bp0GlmjDhhCuNNtPXvSPl1nI7Z68l3WuvwyUcIokomkzK0W gWCw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.81.169 with SMTP id b9mr36597137wiy.12.1369251611816; Wed, 22 May 2013 12:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.217.48.74 with HTTP; Wed, 22 May 2013 12:40:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1369251272.8207.29.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> References: <1369237710.8207.22.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <1369251272.8207.29.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:40:11 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Intel 100/6205/6300 wireless driver From: Adrian Chadd To: Johannes Berg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:40:33 -0000 On 22 May 2013 12:34, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > >> KMOD= iwl6000g2bfw >> IMG= iwlwifi-6000g2b-17.168.5.2 >> >> where's that particular firmware version? There's a 6000g2b in >> linux-firmware, but I don't know if the driver requires _this specific >> version_. :-) > > Curious. Yes, it's possible that this version is required, and it's > available on intellinuxwireless.org (which while we sort out some > hosting just redirects to the wireless.kernel.org wiki, but that doesn't > impact the firmware license.) > > There's a newer version of the 6000g2b firmware (18.168.6.1), since we > rev'ed the API version (5->6) we must have made some changes but I'd > have to check what they were. Right. Well, i'd like to get the driver that you've provided up and running before worrying about syncing up to the latest firmware with said API changes. So, let's figure out what the heck firmware images we need -are- and I'll put this all into a github repository for people to tinker with. Thanks for this! Adrian