On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dan Williams wrote: > This is really a kernel-side issue, specifically in drivers. Drivers > currently call request_firmware() and get an error when the firmware is > not found. Most drivers these days simply print a message to the > console/syslog and give up. Were there a way to notify user-space that > there was missing firmware, then we could intelligently inform the user > about this issue. David Zeuthen (of HAL fame) knows about this issue > and he and I have discussed it before. Its something people are > thinking about and planning for, but its probably a 2.6.13 thing at the > earliest. > > At the moment, there's really not much you can do other than > screenscraping the logs and string matching driver messages. Can links to the IPW2100 / IPW2200 firmware be put in the Release Notes? later, chris