Hi Wey,
Including you and Nathalie of Intel, the Dell wholesaler who integrated my system, and the WIN 7 developers who implemented the windows driver for the card have not expressed any concern that the network card in question (with EEPROM 0x424) be used under WINDOWS 7. To make my life easier, if it isn't too much trouble could you please find out the nature of the difference between the EPROM code of my card (0x424) with the EEPROM version (>=0x434) currently supported by Fedora, so that John, as he kindly suggested merge a patch so that this card (0x424) could still be used by the Fedora community?
with regards, - Sebastian
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John W. Linville linville@redhat.com Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200) To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com
Well, FWIW I offered to _merge_ a patch. :-)
But, if I get some confirmation from a credible source at Intel that simply honoring the earlier version is sufficient I should have no particular problem squeezing-out such a patch.
John
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:51:34PM -0300, Sebastian wrote:
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 <linville@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
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