Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:53 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 18:46 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
So what is the solution for Apple machines owner who only get a v3
firmware from Apple ? I remember you telling me the answer on irc but I
wanted to make it public :-) Some web site we can d/l the windows
updates and extract the FW ?
Yes, fwcutter comes with a huge list of URLs for both firmware versions
(I suppose they'll remove the v3 ones now...)
v3 ones are still needed for the softmac version, unless I'm badly drunk...
Well, the latest "released" version (fwcutter-005) contains a huge list
of ... v3 URLs :-) Only 2 v4 in there. I'll check SVN.
There's actually a v4 big-endian firmware in the fwcutter list in SVN, but
no URL to fetch it from...
It comes from the AppleAirPortBrcm4311 driver. I've no idea where that update
comes from, I found a copy on the Internet somewhere. (I think someone posted
the file to a message board looking for help with it...)
I'm not sure, would it be be bad for me to just stick a copy of it up on a
website? If so, I can prolly dig up the place I got it from (I'm sure I
bookmarked it at the time) and people can choose their own level of comfort.
I have to say it's not clear from the documentation that BE machines like
PPC need to use a BE firmware... (If that's not the case, it's not clear
that it's not the case either, it just doesn't say either way. ^_^)
In fact, given that it's a BE firmware update for Intel-based Macs' bcm
cards, I presume the endianess of the firmware doesn't matter?
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Paul Hampson
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