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From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
To: ext Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>
Cc: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>, panduranga <x0125717@ti.com>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
	Linux Wireless Mailing List <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jara, Pedro" <pedrojara@ti.com>
Subject: Re: Problem bringing up wlan0 interface up with mainline wl1271 drivers
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:38:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292582324.18083.7.camel@chilepepper> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <397FC41E-7F1D-4AA8-9D09-6121BB0169E7@mac.com>

Hi Elvis,

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 14:25 +0400, ext Elvis Dowson wrote:
> Hi Arik,
> 
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> > 
> > The firmware file should be called wl1271-fw.bin and the nvs file
> > should be called wl1271-nvs.bin. Both should reside in /etc/firmware
> > (if you're running a standard linux).
> 
> I got the files from this git repo 
> 
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
> 
> and copied them over to /etc/firmware
> 
> /etc/firmware# ls -l
> total 276
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 271712 Dec 17  2010 wl1271-fw.bin
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root    912 Dec 17  2010 wl1271-nvs.bin
> 
> But I still get a error saying the the nvs file could not be found:
> 
> [   63.852264] wl1271: ERROR could not get nvs file: -2
> [   63.906250] wl1271: loaded
> [   63.909271] wl1271: initialized

You need to start udevd.  The driver gets the firmware via udev.


-- 
Cheers,
Luca.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-17 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <57CB308D-7237-46D7-9AF8-7093F52682E8@mac.com>
     [not found] ` <AANLkTikESPwcaxUSDd3B=Oh7kBD-QpndKRHmu9-roDqs@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-17  0:23   ` Problem bringing up wlan0 interface up with mainline wl1271 drivers Elvis Dowson
2010-12-17  5:11     ` panduranga
2010-12-17  8:36       ` Elvis Dowson
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTinejL9LeocQPzjrqrCFYbrF9wqpD9dSyfEVu8us@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-17  8:59           ` Arik Nemtsov
2010-12-17  9:44           ` Elvis Dowson
2010-12-17 10:12             ` Arik Nemtsov
2010-12-17 10:25               ` Elvis Dowson
2010-12-17 10:34                 ` Arik Nemtsov
2010-12-17 10:37                   ` Elvis Dowson
2010-12-17 11:12                     ` Elvis Dowson
2010-12-17 10:38                 ` Luciano Coelho [this message]
2011-08-10 11:34                   ` amit.gemini
2010-12-17  9:33       ` Elvis Dowson

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