On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:49 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > Most wireless drivers load their firmware at interface open time, which > generally occurs after the filesystem is available. However, the ipw drivers > load their firmware at probe time because firmware is required to read the > device MAC address. When built-in, probe happens before the filesystem is > available, hence device init will only complete successfully if the user > has made special arrangements (including firmware plus a loader in the > initramfs). I wonder if the MAC address can be read directly like the 3945/4965 hw can? johannes
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