Bug #3397
closedCannot 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.