Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f180.google.com ([209.85.161.180]:60763 "EHLO mail-gx0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751857Ab0LQKMl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:12:41 -0500 Received: by gxk19 with SMTP id 19so294996gxk.11 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:12:40 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <57CB308D-7237-46D7-9AF8-7093F52682E8@mac.com> <98BC4735-664C-491E-80CE-356BE32FA2ED@mac.com> From: Arik Nemtsov Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:12:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problem bringing up wlan0 interface up with mainline wl1271 drivers To: Elvis Dowson Cc: panduranga , Ohad Ben-Cohen , Linux Wireless Mailing List , "Jara, Pedro" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:44, Elvis Dowson wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Arik Nemtsov wrote: > >> Ethernet addresses with the LSB of the first octet turned on are considered multicast addresses. Please try: >> >> ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:22:33:44:55:66 > > That worked, now the only thing is to put the firmware file in the appropriate place, I guess: > > # ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:22:33:44:55:66 > > # ifconfig wlan0 up > > [ ?153.843597] wl1271: ERROR could not get firmware: -2 > > Where should the firmware file be located? /etc/firmware ? > > Elvis Dowson > The firmware file should be called wl1271-fw.bin and the nvs file should be called wl1271-nvs.bin. Both should reside in /etc/firmware (if you're running a standard linux). Regards, Arik