From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 26 18:52:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A106904 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B866118E0 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18540 invoked by uid 1003); 26 Dec 2013 18:52:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kiwi) (tyler@monkeypox.org@24.170.47.207) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 26 Dec 2013 18:52:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:52:06 -0800 From: "R. Tyler Croy" To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Checking the current iwn(4) firmware version and upgrading it Message-ID: <20131226185206.GB2259@kiwi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+g7M9IMkV8truYOl" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 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: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:52:16 -0000 --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I'm rather familiar with the FreeBSD source code and buildworld process, but I don't have a good idea of where binary blobs for chipset firmwares are kept. Is there a document I missed in the handbook or on the wiki which details where the firmware comes from and how one might be able to experiment with later versions? Cheers - R. Tyler Croy ------------------ Code: https://github.com/rtyler Chatter: https://twitter.com/agentdero rtyler@jabber.org --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlK8etYACgkQFCbH3D9R4W9bxACfQDIKq+JHC0huptmix78HcnMf RpoAn2XNJ2AJ2sDNiiAJ7x6HogtJhvDG =UnEU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--