Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:12:20 +0200 | From | Luca <> | Subject | Re: ipw2200 only works as a module? |
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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.
I suggest to stick with modular driver, otherwise you must create an initrd with hotplug + firmware.
More on firmware loading here: http://lwn.net/Articles/32997/
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