From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: kronos@kronoz.cjb.net
Subject: Re: ipw2200 only works as a module?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:35:12 -0500
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On Monday 26 September 2005 12:12, Luca wrote:
> Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > With CONFIG_IPW2200=y I get:
> >
> > ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
> > ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
> >
> > but with CONFIG_IPW2200=m it works fine. If it doesn't work when built
> > into the kernel, why even give people the option?
> >
> > BTW, a better error message than "Reason -2" would be nice. =)
>
> -2 is -ENOENT (no such file or directory). ipw2000 requests its firmware
> using a hotplug event, but when the driver is compiled into the kernel
> it gets loaded _before_ the root fs is mounted and of course the hotplug
> system and the firmware are not available.

Any possibility of extracting initramfs early enough that the firmware could 
live in there when this sucker's built in?

Rob
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