Re: compat-wireless and minstrel

Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-04T21:51:01Z

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Adam Wozniak <awozniak@irobot.com> wrote:
>
> $ ls -la /lib/firmware/ar9170*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83968 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170-1.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3508 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170-2.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15960 2009-10-17 15:55 /lib/firmware/ar9170.fw
>
> It is unclear to me which are actually used.

By default the ar9170.fw is tried first, if that fails then the others
are tried. The 2-stage firmware will not be tried if your device
cannot handle it but right now only the AVM Fritz devices can't handle
the 2-stage firmware.

Christian should we just remove 2-stage fw support?

Luis