From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Malte Gell <malte.gell@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.33: ar9170.fw firmware file not found
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:37:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1268199428.17677.9.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003060342.19623.malte.gell@gmx.de>
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 03:42 +0100, Malte Gell wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote
>
> > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 08:35 +0100, Malte Gell wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just upgraded from Kernel 2.6.32 to 2.6.33 and the ar9170 driver
> > > suddenly says "firmware file not found".
>
> Ok, this is what the kernel says:
>
> <6>[ 12.020028] usb 1-3: firmware: requesting ar9170.fw
> <3>[ 72.050094] usb 1-3: ar9170.fw firmware file not found, trying old
> firmware...
> <6>[ 72.066421] usb 1-3: firmware: requesting ar9170-1.fw
> <3>[ 132.080085] usb 1-3: file with init values not found.
> <4>[ 132.096535] ar9170usb: probe of 1-3:1.0 failed with error -2
> <6>[ 132.113558] usbcore: registered new interface driver ar9170usb
>
> I have the same firmware in /lib/firmware I use with 2.6.32 and it is actually a
> Fritz WLAN N stick...
Oh, I see. I misunderstood you. When you mentioned that you get the
message "firmware file not found", I thought you were getting that
message without the firmware name. Indeed, the driver can print it
under some rare circumstances, but it's not the case here.
I should have asked you for the exact kernel log output before delving
into the sources and trying to guess what is happening. That serves me
a lesson.
So you have a case of the firmware not loading at all. I'm pretty sure
the problem lies outside the driver, and likely outside the kernel.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 7:35 Kernel 2.6.33: ar9170.fw firmware file not found Malte Gell
2010-03-04 8:57 ` Malte Gell
2010-03-05 22:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-03-05 22:31 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-06 2:42 ` Malte Gell
2010-03-10 5:37 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2010-03-10 7:52 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-11 6:48 ` Malte Gell
2010-03-11 7:40 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-03-11 8:33 ` Malte Gell
2010-03-11 18:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-03-15 10:23 ` Malte Gell
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