Thanks a million John for offering to write a patch. Today I spoke to Nathalie from Intel about this issue, ticket number: 8000209173. Nathalie said she would write to you on behalf of Intel that since Intel are prepared to have me use this card in Windows 7 (same EEPROM, same hardware), as Wey-wi also wrote yesterday, and since this card was installed by the Dell system-integrator/wholesaler and NOT by me then that same EEPROM version (VER=0x423 < 0x434 CALIB=0x5 < 0x4) should support my hardware.
hope this is not a big hassle for you, if I can help with the patch, please advise. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, John W. Linville <linvi...@redhat.com>wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:27:59PM -0300, Sebastian wrote: > > Thanks John for the message. > > Did Wey-yi respond to your mail John? > > I saw a reply from her -- perhaps she only sent it to me. > She confirmed that the required value was as intended. > > > Is the "too old" Eprom, firmware conjecture reasonable, considering the > card > > DOES work in Windows 7 as verified? > > "Reasonable" may be in the eye of the beholder, but it depends on > what the driver does with the information it gets from the eeprom. > It could be that the current linux driver is doing something with > the eeprom info that the windows driver you are using doesn't do. > Maybe the linux driver could be more conservative about what it > does with eeprom info when the eeprom version is too old? Or maybe > the windows driver is at risk of doing the wrong thing already? > Maybe some later version of the windows driver will refuse to work > with your hardware? I have no idea. > > For the most part, this is a hardware support issue for the Intel > folks. If you can convince them that the earlier eeprom version > should be supported for your hardware, I'll be happy to merge a patch > to enable it. But if they say that your hardware will operate outside > of legal limits with your eeprom's values, then I can't enable it in > good conscience. > > John > -- > John W. Linville The truth will set you free, but first it > will > linvi...@redhat.com make you miserable. -- James A. > Garfield > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >
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