On 21 Aug, kilroyd@googlemail.com wrote:

This patch series enables WPA on Agere based orinoco devices.

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To use WPA, you will need an Agere firmware image. You can get the
necessary file at
<http://marc.info/?l=3Dorinoco-devel&m=3D121078835610877>, just extra=

ct

and rename orinoco.fw to agere_sta_fw.bin and place it in
/lib/firmware (or distro equivalent). Alternatively you can try
extract firmware from a Windows driver using the program in
<http://marc.info/?l=3Dorinoco-devel&m=3D120846933719051>.

Hi,

The quoted patchset introduces the capability to load firmware for
a particular variant of the orinoco wireless cards. At the moment
the firmware image is only readily available in an email archive.

Can we include this firmware in the linux-firmware tree? If so
what do I need to do to get it there?

The firmware in the above link was originally distributed by Agere
within a driver with a BSD-style license. The only modification
I've made is to add a header defining offsets into the main image.
The original driver can still be found at
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~pptp/agere/wl_lkm_718_release.tar.gz>. I've
included the text of the license below.


Thanks,

Dave Kilroy.
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