Re: Binary for carl9170

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On 07/15/2011 03:16 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>:
>
>> 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/

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin