Ok! Thanks for the info. I will run some tests with a new OpenWRT build for x86_64, with only the minimum required modules to see what happens.
On 2 December 2015 at 16:15, Dirk Neukirchen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30.11.2015 19:35, Carlos Ferreira wrote: > > Direct firmware load for > > iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2 > > Originally IWLWIFI versions depend on Kernel versions.see[3] > > Since we use a separate mac80211 we should not care about kernel > version - since we use "development"/newest drivers > > iwlwifi seems to expect newer firmware too. > - rev. 17 does not seem to be published yet. > - rev. 16 (iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode) is available in linux-firmware[1] > - rev 14,15 are not in mainline linux-firmware but in other repos[2] > > Older Firmware is supposed to work with newer drivers according > to iwlwifi documentation[3] - Kernel 3.10+ means that this should > work with later versions too > > iwlwifi is a little bit untested on OpenWrt because AP/5GHz issue > on cards. So maybe its a bug with firmware or code itself and > you could report it to the wireless/iwlwifi kernel guys. > See wireless kernel wiki page[4] > > [1] > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ > [2] > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/linux-firmware/ > https://github.com/OpenELEC/iwlwifi-firmware/tree/master/firmware > [3]https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi > [4]https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi/debugging > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > -- Carlos Miguel Ferreira Researcher at Telecommunications Institute Aveiro - Portugal Work E-mail - [email protected] Skype & GTalk -> [email protected] LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosmferreira
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