ipw2200 and network manager
Chris Ricker
kaboom at oobleck.net
Thu May 19 16:19:35 UTC 2005
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dan Williams wrote:
> This is really a kernel-side issue, specifically in drivers. Drivers
> currently call request_firmware() and get an error when the firmware is
> not found. Most drivers these days simply print a message to the
> console/syslog and give up. Were there a way to notify user-space that
> there was missing firmware, then we could intelligently inform the user
> about this issue. David Zeuthen (of HAL fame) knows about this issue
> and he and I have discussed it before. Its something people are
> thinking about and planning for, but its probably a 2.6.13 thing at the
> earliest.
>
> At the moment, there's really not much you can do other than
> screenscraping the logs and string matching driver messages.
Can links to the IPW2100 / IPW2200 firmware be put in the Release Notes?
later,
chris
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