RE: change in iwi-firmware operation
"Wilde, Donald" <[email protected]>
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-----Original Message----- From: Frank Altpeter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 7:25 AM To: Wilde, Donald Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: change in iwi-firmware operation Hi there, Wilde, Donald wrote on 2006-05-15 at 15:12:13 CEST: > Hi, All - > > I have a Centrino (2200G) equipped Dell Inspiron 6000, and had it > working reasonably well with the iwi firmware. > > I just updated to the version in ports as of a few days ago, and > discovered that the firmware won't stay firm. Sure. The firmware is not permanent. It must be loaded on boot every time ... I'm running ipw which provides an ipw.sh startup script in $PREFIX/etc/rc.d which has to enabled with ipw_enable="YES" - i assume the same fits for iwi driver... ======================================================================== = Thanks for the pointer, Frank, Hmmm. Kinda defeats the meaning of 'firmware', and I'm going to start worrying about write-cycles of the FLASH. Dunno what's in a Centrino system, (anybody?) although it's likely Intel NOR FLASH, which should be good for 100K-cycles. Even so, WHY would one need to load FLASH every boot? No, the iwi.sh did not get installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, although I did have iwi_enable="YES" in rc.conf. Either that, or the nice little helpful routine in mergemaster cleaned it out for me as one of those "old" scripts that can cause "Very Bad Things" to happen... -- Don Wilde Org 01737 505-844-1126 I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. - Steven Wright _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"