[ltp] Latest firmware for Cisco Aironet MPI350

[Greg Meyer]

On Sunday 04 July 2004 01:59 am, Peter Fr=FChberger wrote:
> Greg Meyer wrote:
> | I understand that the airo driver in the 2.6.7 kernel now has support f=
or
> | later firmwares for the MPI350 Mini-PCI card that many of us have in our
> | Thinkpads.  Does anybody know what firmware is supported, I've browsed
>
> the
>
> | kernel sources, but I can't find the info I am looking for.
>
> I successfully use Firmware Version 5.20.17, it was the latest firmware,
> when I was the last time on the cisco firmware site...
>
> I patched, the bk-12 airo.c patch in 2.6.7 an also applied Fabrice
> Bellets patch for 2.6.7-bk-10
> http://bellet.info/laptop/t40.html
>
> But 2.6.7 is in someway broken with drm, radeon etc. for me so I am
> using 2.6.6, with the 2.6.7-bk10 airo.c
>
Thanks for that, I never thought to check Fabrice Bellet's page, although I=
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had it in my bookmarks.

I successfully backported the airo module from 2.6.7 to my 2.6.5 kernel.  I=
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couldn't move to 2.6.7 because there seems to be a problem with the local=20
apic code, because if I start the kernel with the nolapic boot parameter in=
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order to get a proper shutdown on my T41, the kernel doesn't boot.  It hang=
s=20
right after attempting to load.  2.6.5 works fine, but I wanted the new=20
features of the airo module in the post 2.6.7-bk10.  I backported it by usi=
ng=20
the Makefile from the old airo_mpi module.

After updating the kernel module, I used WIndows to update the driver and t=
he=20
firmware.  I am now on firmware 5.30.17 and the performance in Windows is=20
much better and the new airo module works great with the 5.30.17 firmware, =
so=20
far (holds breath).
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/g