Bug #3397
closed
Cannot load builtin or external firmware for mwl driver
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Description
Hello,
I've tried to get a marvell wireless card to work a long time before posting this.
Here's the output of pfsense startup:
mwl0: <Marvell 88W8363> mem 0xf0b10000-0xf0b1ffff,0xf0b00000-0xf0b0ffff irq 16 at device 12.0 on pci17
mwl0: [ITHREAD]
mwl0: load mw88W8363fw firmware image (94940 bytes)
mwl0: unable to setup builtin firmware
device_attach: mwl0 attach returned 6
I've tried to fetch an external firmware from http://files.pfsense.org/jimp/ko-8.3/amd64/mw88W8363fw.ko
and loaded it with
kldload -v /boot/firmware/mw88W8363fw.ko
kldstat says it's loaded, but i still can't get that card to work.
Obviously i've tried setting the following boot options:
if_mwl_load="YES"
mwlfw_load="YES"
But none of them makes the difference.
Is there any chance the firmware can be shipped with next version ?
Or builtin firmware removed so mwlfw_load="YES" will load an external one ?
Thanks.
Updated by Chris Buechler over 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Needs Patch
what JimP has there is as good as anything will get for that driver. It's likely better behaved in 2.2 with the improved wireless in FreeBSD 10.1, and if not, that'll need to get fixed upstream in FreeBSD.