I must be missing a piece of the necessary environment to get wireless started... This is an embedded environment that has not had wireless previously. When I plug my rt73 adapter in: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 7 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice phy3 -> rt73usb_validate_eeprom: EEPROM recovery - NIC: 0xffef phy3 -> rt73usb_validate_eeprom: EEPROM recovery - Led: 0xe000 phy3 -> rt73usb_validate_eeprom: EEPROM recovery - RSSI OFFSET A: 0x0000 phy3 -> rt2x00_set_chip: Info - Chipset detected - rt: 1300, rf: 0002, rev: 0002573a. phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' ----------- UDEV [1247788838.265890] add /class/net/wmaster0 (net) UDEV_LOG=3 ACTION=add DEVPATH=/class/net/wmaster0 SUBSYSTEM=net INTERFACE=wmaster0 IFINDEX=9 SEQNUM=594 UDEV [1247788838.268243] add /class/net/wlan0 (net) UDEV_LOG=3 ACTION=add DEVPATH=/class/net/wlan0 SUBSYSTEM=net INTERFACE=wlan0 IFINDEX=10 SEQNUM=595 MATCHADDR=00:18:f3:2f:0a:de MATCHIFTYPE=1 COMMENT=USB device 0x:0x (rt73usb) ---------- But I never get a request_firmware event. This seems to be because the adapter 's start() function is never called. I'm missing some piece of the system - a kernel module or some part of user space. Can someone give me a clue on how to debug this? I though it was missing crda but adding that didn't fix it. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx -- 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