Identify mystery libertas firmware?

Bill Gribble grib at billgribble.com
Thu Oct 16 12:33:36 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:08 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:26 -0400, Bill Gribble wrote:
> > I came across a firmware file on my hard drive that was different than
> > the ones I had been trying on my Raon Everun (SD8686 internal), and
> > plopped it into /lib/firmware to see what happened.
> > 
> > Imagine my surprise when it worked!  Under kernel 2.6.27, I get an eth0
> > device and can join and use WPA networks with no problems. 
> > 
> > Unfortunately I don't know where this particular firmware file came
> > from.  Can anyone in libertas-land identify it based on its md5sum? 
> 
> What does the driver print out in the kernel logs when you load the part
> with this firmware?  It should print out the firmware version in the
> first few lines after the card is inserted.

Ah, ok.  Found it: 

   libertas: 00:19:88:xx:xx:xx, fw 8.73.7p3, cap 0x00000393

Works great, I see a few messages like this in the logs: 

   libertas: PREP_CMD: command 0x00a3 failed: 2

but they don't appear to do any harm. 

Thanks,
Bill Gribble







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