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Bug #2954

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Increase FIRMWARE_MAX to 50 for bwn and bwi wifi firmware

Added by Jon Sturm over 12 years ago. Updated about 12 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Operating System
Target version:
-
Start date:
04/17/2013
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.1-IPv6
Affected Architecture:
All

Description

In order to support bwi and bwn wifi cards a patch from upstream FreeBSD. This apparently has been an issue since 2010 when the patch was applied to the kernel, it does not seem to appear in the kernel built for pfsense. That said it does appear to be a simple change of an equate, bumping FIRMWARE_MAX from 30 to 50 in sys/kern/subr_firmware.c

Patch can be found here
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/subr_firmware.c?view=patch&r1=204850&r2=204849&pathrev=204850

svn commit mail here
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2010-March/021027.html

It seems this patch was only applied to the FreeBSD9 series kernels but there are reports on the forum of it working with the 8.3 series. It is a rather simple change as it is.

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