From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hauke Mehrtens Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:21:24 +0100 Subject: Switching to 4.174.64.19 firmware for G-PHY cards? In-Reply-To: <4CFE538A.10808@lwfinger.net> References: <4CFE538A.10808@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <4CFE8934.4060803@hauke-m.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 12/07/2010 04:32 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > On 12/07/2010 06:28 AM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: >> W dniu 7 grudnia 2010 13:21 u?ytkownik Rafa? Mi?ecki napisa?: >>> Currently we tell ppl to use 4.150.10.5 for G-PHY and 4.174.64.19 for >>> LP-PHY on our wiki page. >>> >>> Firmware files for G-PHY differ a little between there two versions, >>> but did we actually get any problems reports? >>> >>> Can we drop 4.150.10.5 description? >> >> openSUSE 11.3 seems to download 4.174.64.19 only with it's script and >> I didn't heard about any reports. One more point for dropping >> 4.150.10.5? > > I pushed the patch to change openSUSE's script early in the beta testing for > that release. I have heard no complaints either. I agree that 4.150.10.5 should > be dropped. We had serious issues with firmware version 4.174.64.19 in OpenWrt and switched back to the old on as the default option. This issue afftected mostly LP-PHY devices. See the Bug report: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6907 This was with kernel 2.6.32 and compat-wireless from round about March to May 2010. Stable means the old firmware version and experimental the new one in the bug report. Hauke