On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:27 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > I have a new Broadcom 4318 adapter (which has exactly the same issues > with promiscuous mode). Huh? That's really weird. > I didn't have the right firmware down for it > and I received this error message when I did "ifconfig wlan up" > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory. This is not the most user > friendly error message, but I did receive a log entry. > > I tried the same thing with the zd1211. In this case the wlan0 device > didn't get created. > > Does it make sense to specify consistent behavior when the firmware is missing? It does, and I believe we've talked about it at the wireless summits, but I'm not aware that we've reached a conclusion. It would probably be nice to have an error message -EFIRMWARE or something; that for zd1211 no device is created is probably counter-productive, that way userspace will never know that a wireless adapter is plugged in. johannes
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