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Re: Problem bringing up wlan0 interface up with mainline wl1271 drivers

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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:44, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>
>> Ethernet addresses with the LSB of the first octet turned on are considered multicast addresses. Please try:
>>
>> ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:22:33:44:55:66
>
> That worked, now the only thing is to put the firmware file in the appropriate place, I guess:
>
> # ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:22:33:44:55:66
>
> # ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> [  153.843597] wl1271: ERROR could not get firmware: -2
>
> Where should the firmware file be located? /etc/firmware ?
>
> Elvis Dowson
>

The firmware file should be called wl1271-fw.bin and the nvs file
should be called wl1271-nvs.bin. Both should reside in /etc/firmware
(if you're running a standard linux).

Regards,
Arik
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