From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:41744 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751560Ab1GOWtF (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:49:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4E20C3DC.3020200@gnu.org> (sfid-20110716_005149_371117_00B679B5) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:49:00 -0400 From: Pavel Roskin MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Roskin CC: Christian Lamparter , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Binary for carl9170 References: <201107151509.23258.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <4E2072BF.6000306@gnu.org> <201107152039.07294.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <20110715151642.0j86tyrj4k0g4sg4-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <20110715151642.0j86tyrj4k0g4sg4-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/15/2011 03:16 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Christian Lamparter : > >> 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