2009-07-30 13:14:32

by Mladen Horvat

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Subject: Re: zd1211rw couldn't load firmware. Error number -145 with Kernel 2.6.30

Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@...> writes:

> I noticed you have a particularly slow CPU (33MHz?)... the vendor
> driver has some preculiar coding to interrupt some operations to
> prevent deadlocks; I wonder if the rw driver inherit that? One of the
> patches in my patch set for the vendor driver put a delay right after
> firmware load;
> it might be appropriate to add something similiar to the rw driver.
> --

As i have written
here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.zd1211.devel/1736
the vendor 3.0 driver has no problem with the firmware upload and at least gets
an working interface up.

So i think this is definitively a driver problem with the zd1211rw.

regards

Mladen