Re: Intel Centrino 6300 Ultimate-N adapter

[Brett Lymn <blymn%baesystems.com.au@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:00:36PM -0700, B Harder wrote:
> 
> Hi Sverre -- I am interested... I've actually already got the 6000-4
> firmware, got the pcidevs setup, and worked w/ the existing driver
> code to get the device attached... at this point, it's failing w/
> eeprom errors (two of them, don't recall what there are, at the
> moment). If you've got something in some state of "working", you're
> further ahead than I am, though, and I'd love to see that code.
> 

As you have discovered, it is highly unlikely that you can just add
the device to pci devs and use the current iwn driver to make it
work.  I would expect that the interface to the firmware on the card
is slightly different, requiring different command structures.  This
can happen even between versions of firmware on the same hardware.  I
am not sure how different our iwn driver is from the OpenBSD one these
days, perhaps patching in the card specific code from their driver
would be possible.

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Brett Lymn
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