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Subject: Re: Problem bringing up wlan0 interface up with mainline wl1271
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From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:38:43 +0200
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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.