From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wl1271 NVS file loading
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:10:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqbrj8nk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gxz6n9i.fsf@gmail.com>
Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running a PandaBoard with Linaro 12.03 and a patched 3.3
> kernel. While wl1271 works perfectly with the Linaro kernel, it fails to
> load in the case of my patched kernel with,
>
> wl12xx: ERROR could not get nvs file ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin: -2
>
> What is even more perplexing is the fact that the file in question
> clearly exists,
>
> $ ls /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/*-nvs.bin -l
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912 2012-03-24 16:28 /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912 2012-03-24 16:28 /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl127x-nvs.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1113 2012-03-24 16:28 /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl128x-nvs.bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2012-01-24 13:10 /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl12xx-nvs.bin -> wl127x-nvs.bin
>
> It seems that there is no easy way to troubleshoot udev's
> /lib/udev/firmware script, so I have really no way of tracking this down
> any further. Any ideas what might be going on here?
>
It turns out I had neglected to compile wl1271 as a module and the
firmware hadn't made it into the initrd. I apologize for the noise.
Cheers,
- Ben
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2012-04-02 0:10 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2012-04-02 8:54 ` wl1271 NVS file loading Luciano Coelho
2013-07-09 14:16 ` Ben Gamari
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