From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:40:29 -0800
> This is a one liner change to have the driver use by default the v1.4 > of the i2400m firmware instead of v1.3. The v1.4 version of the > firmware has been submitted to David Woodhouse for inclusion in the > linux-firmware tree and it is already available at > http://linuxwimax.org/Download. > > The reason for this change is that the 1.3 release of the user space > software and firmware has a few issues that will make it difficult to > use with currently deployed commercial networks such as Xohm and > Clearwire. > > As well, the new 1.4 release of the user space software (which matches > the 1.4 firmware) has intermitent issues with the 1.3 firmware. > > The 1.4 release in http://linuxwimax.org/Download has been widely > deployed and tested with the codebase in 2.6.29-rc, the 1.4 firmware > and the 1.4 user space components. > > We understand it is quite late in the rc process for such a change, > but would like to ask for the change to be taken into consideration. > > Alternatively, a user could always force feed a 1.4 firmware into a > driver that doesn't have this modification by: > > $ cd /lib/firmware > $ mv i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.real.sbcf > $ ln -sf i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbc i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf > > Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[email protected]> Applied. _______________________________________________ wimax mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxwimax.org/mailman/listinfo/wimax
