Cannot load mwl driver (kernel provided firmware image doesn't load)
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Hello,
I'm trying to get my Netgear WN311T PCI card to work with pfSense 2.1 release (chip Marvell Topdog 8363).
On boot, i can see the following messagesmwl0: <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</marvell>I've tried to load a firmware found here : http://files.pfsense.org/jimp/ko-8.3/amd64/mw88W8363fw.ko
Loaded it with
kldload -v /boot/firmware/mw88W8363fw.ko
It loads successfully (tested with kldstat) but mwl driver still doesn't work.
I'm pretty sure that the kernel provided firmware doesn't work, but i don't know a way to force an external firmware (mwlfw_load="YES" doesn't work either).
Can anyone give me the good direction ?
Thank you.
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Try this in loader.conf
if_mwl_load="YES"
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Thanks, i've tried, but it doesn't make any difference, same error in dmesg.
I've also tried mwlfw_load="YES" but it didn't do the trick neither.Any other clues i could investigate ?
Thanks.
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up :o
Been dying trying to find a solution. Please, anyone ?