On 07/15/2011 03:16 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
Quoting Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
So, since you already have a working version, why simply put it on the
wiki?
Yes, I have a working version now (compiled with all defaults) and I'll
try to upload it myself.
Oh well, I can upload it to wiki, but not to your page at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chr/carl9170/fw/
That page is linked to on
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170.fw
I don't want to setup an alternative competing repository for carl9170
firmwares.
The wiki allows attachments, so I uploaded the firmware as an
attachment. First I put is on the main carl9170 page, but it turned out
that MoinMoin doesn't appear to have any way to specify the attachment
name in the link. Since I called the attachment "carl9170-1.fw-1.9.4",
it would only download under that name, rather than as "carl9170-1.fw".
I don't want to call the attachment "carl9170-1.fw" since nobody,
including me, would be able to replace it with another version ever.
So I created a separate wiki page for the 1.9.4 version of the firmware
and attached the firmware to it as "carl9170-1.fw". That's an
equivalent of having directories with files having the same name.
The carl9170 page recommends 1.9.2 for all kernels up to 3.0. The 1.9.4
is recommended for compat-wireless. If that's not your recommendation,
please feel free to update the wiki.
I was able to verify that carl9170 from the Fedora kernel
2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 works with firmware 1.9.4, even though it
complains about unsupported features:
[ 117.159395] usb 1-7: driver API: 1.9.0 2010-10-29 [1-1]
[ 117.164830] usb 1-7: firmware API: 1.9.4 2011-06-30
[ 117.169740] usb 1-7: Unprotected firmware image.
[ 117.174375] usb 1-7: driver does not support all firmware features.
Perhaps we could recommend 1.9.4 for more kernels?
Also, it would be nice to have the 1.9.4 firmware on
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chr/carl9170/fw/
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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