[elrepo-devel] iwl3945-firmware

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Phil Perry<phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> Actually this is all easy enough for me to do...
>
>  From the kernel-2.6.18-155 source, in /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/
>
> [buildsys at Quad iwlwifi]$ grep "UCODE_API" * | grep define
> iwl-3945.h:#define IWL3945_UCODE_API "-1"
> iwl-4965.c:#define IWL4965_UCODE_API "-2"
> iwl-5000.c:#define IWL5000_UCODE_API  "-1"
>
> shows us that iwl3945 and iwl5000 both use revision -1 firmwares whereas
> iwl4965 currently uses revision -2 firmware, so now we know. This is the
> same as for RHEL 5.3 so no changes in the 5.4 series kernels.
>
> Our packages in elrepo (and rppmforge) all contain the latest firmware
> for these revisions :)
>
> If anyone wants to repeat that experiment for older 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2
> series kernels, that might be interesting in terms of knowing which
> older revision firmwares we actually need to ship for compatibility.
>
> Thank you Akemi for making me actually *think* about the issue :)

I don't know why I saw the Dec 2008 date but it's gone now.  And I
confirm the latest for the iwl3965 ucode-1 is Oct 2008.  Sorry for the
noise and thanks for your good work.

Akemi