Fedora Core 14 wireless issue with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200)

[John W. Linville]

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 at 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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