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  1. Bug #532451
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 532451

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RL 'Bob' Morgan (rlmorgan) wrote : Re: [Bug 532451] Re: Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 6050 series wireless does not work

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, KB1JWQ wrote:

> Right, I get that. But what I saw that struck me as "new" was the
> iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode firmware bundle; I haven't seen it before, and I
> THINK that it's being referred to in the 6250 (and other) drivers as the
> appropriate firmware blob in the latest development snapshots.
>
> Am I wrong?

The -6000 is different from the -6050. I even tried renaming the
-6000-4.ucode file to -6050 to see if it would work, and got an error like
"microcode loading failed". So we still need Intel to produce -6050
firmware (aka microcode).

  - RL "Bob"