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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 12:25, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Arik,
>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>
> I got the files from this git repo
>
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
>
> and copied them over to /etc/firmware
>
> /etc/firmware# ls -l
> total 276
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 271712 Dec 17  2010 wl1271-fw.bin
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root    912 Dec 17  2010 wl1271-nvs.bin
>
> But I still get a error saying the the nvs file could not be found:
>
> [   63.852264] wl1271: ERROR could not get nvs file: -2
> [   63.906250] wl1271: loaded
> [   63.909271] wl1271: initialized
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson
>

Sorry Elvis I gave you the wrong path :)
Its /lib/firmware in a regular linux. Its /etc/firmware in android.

Regards,
Arik
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