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Bug #3397

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Cannot load builtin or external firmware for mwl driver

Added by Orsiris de Jong over 10 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:
Needs Patch
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
01/16/2014
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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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.

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