Hi Luis, > >> > > This series now works for me on my WNDA31000, it took a newer shiny > >> > > 1-stage firmware to work. I'll push the firmware into linux-firmware > >> > > next. > >> > > > >> > > Should work with the AVM Fritz devices now, haven't tested it but > >> > > I think it should work. > >> > > >> > I happened to have one of these AVM devices. With ar9170.fw firmware it > >> > does work fine with the other ones it doesn't. > >> > >> Excellent, that was the idea behind the patch, to enable these > >> devices. Thanks for testing. > >> > >> > The ar9170.fw is still not in linux-firmware.git, any reason for that? > >> > >> Yes, the patch I sent to David has some funk as objcopy to ihex seems > >> to have some trailing white space. I sent a new patch to him without > >> the ihex file though. > >> > >> > Also since ar9170-1.fw and ar9170-2.fw are not working at all, > >> > >> They work, they won't work for the AVM device though. > >> > >> > we better > >> > not even try and give the user a crypted error message that the device > >> > is in a bad state. Just printk that the firmware might be too old. > >> > >> Agreed, but as I sent the patch in we *require* the 1-stage firmware > >> for the AVM devices, if that is not present we should be bailing out. > >> Is that not what happens? > > > > nope, it tries ar9170-1.fw and then tries to load that and fails with a > > timeout (-110) and a weird message that the device might be in a bad > > state. > > Oh interesting, hm, ok doe sit go into a loop with that? it bails out of probe, but with are crypted error message. And in the end it should not even try the other firmware files if it is an AVM device since we know they won't work. So lets give a proper error message and bail out. Regards Marcel -- 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
