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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Errors when firmware is missing
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:27:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910707070927l37bdf79cpd1fc672909fb0bb3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I have a new Broadcom 4318 adapter (which has exactly the same issues
with promiscuous mode). I didn't have the right firmware down for it
and I received this error message when I did "ifconfig wlan up"
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory.  This is not the most user
friendly error message, but I did receive a log entry.

I tried the same thing with the zd1211. In this case the wlan0 device
didn't get created.

Does it make sense to specify consistent behavior when the firmware is missing?

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

             reply	other threads:[~2007-07-07 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-07 16:27 Jon Smirl [this message]
2007-07-07 16:41 ` Errors when firmware is missing Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 17:24   ` Daniel Drake
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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