Subject: Re: bcm203x broadcom dongle firmware upload fails...
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:32:24 +0100
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Hi Soeren,

> I don't see why, it used to work reliably at some point but now it does
> not. It even won't work without hotplug and then manually typing:
> 
> echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/2-1/loading
> cat /lib/firmware/BCM2033-FW.bin >/sys/class/firmware/2-1/data
> echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/2-1/loading
> 
> usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
> Bluetooth: Broadcom Blutonium firmware driver ver 1.0
> bcm203x_probe: Mini driver request failed
> bcm203x: probe of 2-1:1.0 failed with error -5
> usbcore: registered new driver bcm203x
> 
> It does not work with kernel 2.6.10/11 any ideas ?

I think this is a general request_firmware() problem. Check the Hotplug
mailing list archive. Hannes, Kay and Greg discussed problems with the
firmware_class and udev. I haven't found the time to look at it.

Regards

Marcel


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