if_iwi problem

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

I will try this. Your efforts are appreciated.
Does the license really allow you to include the firmware into the driver?

Max Laier wrote:
> On Saturday 28 January 2006 18:53, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>> I've got two problems with if_iwi.
>>
>> While active I permanently get the error message:
>> iwi0: unknown notification type 15
>>
>> And the command:
>> # ifconfig iwi0 scan
>> doesn't work. There are no scan results, and if I establish a connection
>> manually it might even hang.
>>
>> Just so you know, I did not forget to load the firmware.
> 
> Could you try the version of the driver from:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/firmware-20060125.tgz
> 
> It has several fixes and a completely reworked firmware loading.  To use it 
> you have to do the following:
> 1) copy the contents of the above tarball over your source tree
> 2) apply sys/conf/kmod.mk.diff
> 3) build and install modules/firmware and modules/iwi_fw
> 4) build and load modules/iwi
> 
> With this you don't need iwicontrol etc. anymore.  Firmware is automatically 
> fetched from the iwi_fw modules.
> 
> I'm going to commit the firmware loading part shortly and will look at 
> importing the iwi changes later.  Would appreciate feedback.
> 

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