From: Bharath Ramesh <krosswindz@gmail.com>
To: Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipw2200 only works as a module?
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:07:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c775eb9b050926100723a3a0bf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4338122C.9000901@gmail.com>
When the kernel is booting it tries to locate the ipw-2.2 firmware
which cannot be found as the filesystems are yet to be mounted. The
firmware normally resides in the /lib directory. Its always advisable
to use drivers which require firmware loading as modules so that when
you try loading the module you have your file system already mounted.
On 9/26/05, Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> With CONFIG_IPW2200=y I get:
>
> ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
>
> but with CONFIG_IPW2200=m it works fine. If it doesn't work when built into the
> kernel, why even give people the option?
>
> BTW, a better error message than "Reason -2" would be nice. =)
>
> Keenan Pepper
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-26 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-26 15:22 ipw2200 only works as a module? Keenan Pepper
2005-09-26 17:07 ` Bharath Ramesh [this message]
2005-09-26 17:12 ` Luca
2005-09-27 5:11 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-19 21:35 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-22 22:50 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-10-23 22:19 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-10-24 6:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
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