#7209 closed enhancement (obsolete)
mwl8k build support
| Reported by: | erik___ | Owned by: | developers |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Barrier Breaker 14.07 |
| Component: | kernel | Version: | |
| Keywords: | mwl8k | Cc: |
Description
There is now entry for the mwl8k driver in the build system.
I have successfully built and used the mwl8k driver for the WNR854T box. Documented here: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=15590&p=2
Its not stable enough to be a default package, but I want the ability to build it.
Patch for buildsupport included.
Attachments (3)
Change History (12)
Changed 8 years ago by erik___
comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 8 years ago by hauke
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Thank you for your patch.
It was applied in 21077.
Does the mwl8k driver needs any firmware to work?
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 8 years ago by erik___
Replying to hauke:
Thank you for your patch.
It was applied in 21077.
Does the mwl8k driver needs any firmware to work?
Yes it needs FW but there is nowhere to get this FW today without extracting it from a windows driver. If it eventually turns up in the linux-firmware-tree we can add it to the build system. Perhaps we should add the extraction tool now?
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by Maddes <maddes_trac@…>
Firmware extraction from Windows driver was described in https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=103243#p103243
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by erik___
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Forgot the patch for pci id support.
Included in the file mwl8k_fix_pci_id.patch
comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by hauke
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reopened to closed
Thank you for the patch.
It was applied in r21167.
Please also send this patch upstream to the mwl8k maintainers.
Changed 8 years ago by Nilfred <nilfred@…>
No functional changes, just a better patch as Lennert said.
comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by Nilfred <nilfred@…>
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
The first hack shouldn't go upstream to the mwl8k maintainers.
Upstreamable patch attached.
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by nico
- Milestone changed from Backfire 10.03.1 to Kamikaze
comment:8 Changed 5 years ago by nbd
- Resolution set to obsolete
- Status changed from reopened to closed
comment:9 Changed 4 years ago by jow
- Milestone changed from Attitude Adjustment 12.09 to Barrier Breaker 14.07
Milestone Attitude Adjustment 12.09 deleted
mwl8k build support