[haiku-commits] Re: r34411 - haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/network/wlan/iprowifi3945
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:14:05 +0100
Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I now put the firmware to /system/data/firmware/iprowifi3945 called
> > iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode (from Linux). Can it be used as this? Do I
> > have to
> > rename it? And if so how?
> It needs to be named wpifw . Aldeck and me were experimenting with it
> last evening and used the firmware from here
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4.tgz.
> > We ran into some ConditonalVariable trouble I'm currently debugging
> on:).
Good luck then!
> > Nevertheless, the driver publishes its device and is loaded.
> Yeah, aldecks driver did that, too even when the firmware wasn't
> present. For me this behaviour sounds like a bug, because it
> shouldn't
> load when no firmware is present in my opinion. At least the
> iprowifi2200 driver is behaving this way without a firmware, so I
> didn't
> look into the other intel drivers yet, but will definitely do that.
Since the driver won't work, it definitely doesn't make any sense to be
loaded in this case, so yes, I agree with you.
> > Just tried with r34443, r34408, and r33701 - seems like it's not
> > your
> > fault. It started after installing OpenSuSE 11.2, but I didn't
> > think it
> > was related since I also updated Haiku to the latest version then.
> > I'm
> > just wondering why this is happening all of a sudden :-/
> I'm not so sure about that. I think my usage of conditional variables
> could be a source of your ipro1000 problem, although my ipro1000 is
> working flawlessly on bare bone and in vmware. I will let you know
> when
> the conditional variable issue has been ironed out, so that you can
> retest.
But I reverted to r34342 that was from before your changes, and the
problem stays.
I'm afraid this a new and annoying problem, that currently renders my
laptop unusable under Haiku :-/
Bye,
Axel.
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