From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: kronos@kronoz.cjb.net
Cc: Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipw2200 only works as a module?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:35:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510191635.13253.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050926171220.GA9341@dreamland.darkstar.lan>
On Monday 26 September 2005 12:12, Luca wrote:
> Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > With CONFIG_IPW2200=y I get:
> >
> > ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
> > ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
> >
> > but with CONFIG_IPW2200=m it works fine. If it doesn't work when built
> > into the kernel, why even give people the option?
> >
> > BTW, a better error message than "Reason -2" would be nice. =)
>
> -2 is -ENOENT (no such file or directory). ipw2000 requests its firmware
> using a hotplug event, but when the driver is compiled into the kernel
> it gets loaded _before_ the root fs is mounted and of course the hotplug
> system and the firmware are not available.
Any possibility of extracting initramfs early enough that the firmware could
live in there when this sucker's built in?
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-22 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-26 15:22 ipw2200 only works as a module? Keenan Pepper
2005-09-26 17:07 ` Bharath Ramesh
2005-09-26 17:12 ` Luca
2005-09-27 5:11 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-10-19 21:35 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2005-10-22 22:50 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-10-23 22:19 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-10-24 6:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
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