On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Chase Douglas <chase.doug...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:02 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Chase Douglas >> <chase.doug...@canonical.com> wrote: >> > I have uploaded a new version of the linux-firmware-nonfree package to: >> > >> > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cndougla/linux-firmware-nonfree/ >> > >> > The new package includes the firmware for prism54 softmac cards. The >> > firmware >> > was removed from linux-firmware due to it missing a proper license >> > statement. I >> > did not copy over the old prism54 (non-softmac) firmware because it has >> > been >> > superseded by the softmac firmware and is no longer useful in the Lucid >> > kernel >> > version. >> >> Hey is PRISM54 no longer compiled in a module any more? I had set it >> for removal on the feature removal schedule but I wanted to give you >> the heads up we've received a few reports of users unable to use >> prism54 over p54pci. It was theorized this would happen but we didn't >> have any confirmation, which is why we just didn't remove it. >> >> How would you guys deal with having both enabled. > > Thanks for looking into this. I was going off of [1], which stated that > the debian kernel does not include the prism54 module anymore.
Fun, passing this as a memo to lkml/Debian -- p54pci doesn't seem to work well for *all* Prism54 FullMAC cards. They technically are the same and the SoftMAC functionality was possible through a smaller firmware. But it seems some cards have issues still with p54pci so I would still enable prism54 as a module but not sure what to recommend about dealing with two modules on the system for the same device. > I checked > the lucid kernel and we do have prism54 built as a module still. So, are > we going to leave the prism54 module in, in which case we need to > restore the prism54 firmware? Yes I'd restore the prism54 firmware until the coast is clear with p54pci for all. Its not the case so far as per reports. > Or are we going to remove it, in which > case the firmware package I uploaded was fine? I'm assuming at this > point we'll be leaving it in though. I'd say keep it for now. > Andy, do you have any thoughts here? > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/prism54 Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/43e72e891002231646w269a1132i505ca5c21ab2...@mail.gmail.com
