On Wednesday 25 May 2011 21:26:32 Marius Ladegaard Meyer wrote: > I built the firmware again today. After building the toolchain, I ran the > autogen.sh script and selected the default values on all the things I was > asked about. The script completed succesfully and created the files > carl9170.bin, carl9170.dsc, carl9170.elf and carl9170.fw in the carlfw > folder. I have attached the output in a text file. output looks sane. > It is at this point I cannot figure out what to do. The carl9170-1.fw files > on the mirror just needs to be put in the /lib/firmware directory, and the > kernel will find them when I plug in the device. I tried to copy all the > aforementioned carl9170.* files to /lib/firmware, but all I see from dmesg > is > > [ 5416.799516] usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address > 5 > [ 5417.092852] usb 2-6: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > address 5 > [ 5417.257236] usb 2-6: firmware not found. the firmware filename is important. The driver can only load the firmware if it is stored in the firmware folder with the right filename: "carl9170-1.fw" the "-1" was introduced as a result of a rather long discussion about firmware versioning best practices: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/firmware-versioning anyway cd into carl9170fw-source/carlfw and cp carl9170.fw /lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw [If /lib/firmware is the correct directory] this should do the trick. > and iwconfig gives me no interface. I'm 100% sure that the error is between > the chair and the keyboard on this one, but I cannot find any documentation > on this anywhere. oh no, you are 100% right. This was not documented anywhere in plain English, but now it should be [just pushed]. Thanks, Chr -- 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
