From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
To: <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>
Cc: "'Denis Vlasenko'" <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
"'Pavel Machek'" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
"'Jeff Garzik'" <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
"'Netdev list'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
"'kernel list'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'James P. Ketrenos'" <ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:23:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050608172345.64613254@griffin.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002901c56c3b$8216cdd0$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com>
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:05:27 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> I might be lost here but... How is the firmware loaded when using the
> ipw2100-1.0.0/patches Kernel patch?
It is loaded by request_firmware() during initialization of the adapter.
That doesn't work, as at that time no hotplug binary can be executed (we
are talking about ipw2100 built in the kernel, not built as a module).
> Currently, when we install the driver, it associates to any open network on
> boot. This is good, cause we don't want to be typing the commands all the
> time just to associate. It works this way now and is pretty nice.
It sounds very dangerous to me.
> So, to scan a network, I would have to do ifconfig eth1 up ; iwlist eth1
> scan?
No. Driver should request the firmware when it is told to perform a scan.
> When moving from modes with the firmwares, would I have to do ifconfig eth1
> up ; iwconfig eth1 mode monitor? or would the firmware be loaded with
> iwconfig? Does it have that function?
Firmware can be loaded automatically by the driver when there is some
request from userspace and the firmware has not been loaded yet.
--
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-08 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 14:23 ipw2100: firmware problem Pavel Machek
2005-06-08 14:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-08 14:56 ` Jirka Bohac
2005-06-08 16:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-21 7:42 ` Simon Kelley
2005-06-21 8:29 ` Feyd
2005-06-21 8:46 ` Simon Kelley
2005-06-08 15:05 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-08 15:23 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2005-06-09 6:09 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:28 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 8:36 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-06-09 10:42 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 19:53 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 21:01 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-09 21:11 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 21:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-09 22:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-10 2:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-10 2:46 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-10 13:00 ` John Stoffel
2005-06-10 13:33 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-09 14:31 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 6:56 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-10 13:23 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 20:26 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-10 21:00 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 21:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-13 16:42 ` Jan Rychter
2005-06-11 12:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-08 17:10 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 19:43 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-08 19:49 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-08 19:54 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:10 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:20 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:30 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:35 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-10 3:51 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-09 6:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-09 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-08 16:58 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-08 21:46 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 3:33 ` Zhu Yi
2005-06-09 10:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 13:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-09 21:12 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-06-09 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik
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