From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:08:59 +0100
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On Friday 14 December 2007 13:53:27 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> 
> > This user did get the following messages in dmesg:
> > 
> > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found "
> >        "or load failed.\n", path);
> > b43err(wl, "You must go to "
> >        "http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware "
> >        "and download the correct firmware (version 4).\n");
> > 
> > I'm not sure how I can improve that even more. There is a full URL 
> > describing how to get the device workin in _full_ detail.
> 
> well i dont have this hardware, but the following description in this 
> thread seems to contradict that:
> 
> || Well, doing an `rmmod bcm43xx ; modprobe ssb b43` gives me nothing in 
> || dmesg other than lines related to the bcm43xx driver. 
> || iwconfig/ifconfig do not see the interface either.

Let's quote another of Ray's statements:
"And ifconfig -a does indeed show it, sorry about that."

So if he did then try to initialize that device, that clearly
_did_ show up in a standard place where network devices are
expected to show up, he did see the message I quoted.
Well, what if he did not try to initialize the device by doing
an "ifconfig wlanX up"? That can hardly be my fault, right?

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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