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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Errors when firmware is missing
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:24:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468FCC4A.2010102@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183826476.3779.42.camel@johannes.berg>

Johannes Berg wrote:
> that for zd1211
> no device is created is probably counter-productive, that way userspace
> will never know that a wireless adapter is plugged in.

This is fixed for zd1211rw in my latest bunch of patches. But it 
certainly wouldn't surprise me if future hardware/drivers are not able 
to create an interface before loading firmware.

It implies that you have a way of reading the MAC address before 
uploading firmware. I only figured this out for zd1211 by reverse 
engineering the boot code to an extent.

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-07 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-07 16:27 Errors when firmware is missing Jon Smirl
2007-07-07 16:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 17:24   ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2007-07-10 22:58     ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 21:34   ` Dan Williams
2007-07-10 22:56     ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 18:08 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-07 18:37   ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-07 21:33     ` Dan Williams

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