On Saturday 07 July 2007 20:08:50 Larry Finger wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > I have a new Broadcom 4318 adapter (which has exactly the same issues > > with promiscuous mode). 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. > > If the firmware did not load correctly, the bcm43xx driver logs appropriate messages. This error > would have been encountered and logged when the interface was brought up. Is that what you meant > when you say that you received a log entry? The ifconfig error message is output by the user code, > and is not controlled by any driver. Well it is. It's -ENOENT, which we return in the driver. I'd like to return, -ENOFIRMWARE, but there's no such error. So I selected the most sane error code (to me), which says file not found... -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
