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Alistair John wrote: > Daniel wrote: >> Hey, that did it! But now I am a liddle confused. It worked fine before. >> Why does it not work while interface is not up? > I'm not sure, but I think you've just been lucky. > I've had this problem even before prism54 was merged. > Some in-tree drivers won't upload the firmware until you ifconfig > up them, which obviously means they won't respond adequately > to the wireless extension requests. Maybe a bug? Nope, no bug. It allows the driver to be built non-modular. When non-modular, the resources are not available, at boot time, to load the firmware. Roger While - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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