Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:07:44 +0200 From: Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de> To: "Max Laier" <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi-firmware-kmod and iwi-firmware Message-ID: <20060516070744.151b7360.manfred.lotz@arcor.de> In-Reply-To: <55782.192.168.4.1.1147735378.squirrel@mail.abi01.homeunix.org> References: <20060515215318.835ef697.manfred.lotz@arcor.de> <55782.192.168.4.1.1147735378.squirrel@mail.abi01.homeunix.org>
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Hi Max, Thanks for your reply. On Tue, 16 May 2006 01:22:58 +0200 (CEST) "Max Laier" <max@love2party.net> wrote: ... > > I know how to use iwi-firmware but how does iwi.firmware-kmod > > relate? > > > > > > Currently, iwi-firmware is quite unreliable in the sense that after > > resuming my laptop and restarting wpa_supplicant I often get panics. > > Newer versions of the iwi(4) driver require you to use > iwi-firmware-kmod (iwi-firmware won't work anymore). Those drivers > utilize the firmware(9) framework to load the firmware. Together > with other changes (at this time only available in CURRENT) this > makes iwi(4) much more stable. You should be able to use > sys/dev/iwi/* from CURRENT in RELENG_6 to get the changes. MFC is > planed, but more testing is required and encouraged. > Ok, I'm running 6.1 STABLE and I copied over from sys/dev/iwi/* Do I still need iwi-firmware in order to run iwi-firmware-kmod or can the kernel modules iwi_bass and firmware be used independently? If so I'm wondering how to specify the connection parameter which are now in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. -- Manfred
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