On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 18:41 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. Drivers should be returning -ENOENT (the error from request_firmware() when the firmware isn't found) when userspace sets IFF_UP on the device, so that userspace has the faintest hope of intelligently informing the user. Dan - 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
