[OLPC-devel] firmware of the wireless ?

Marcelo Tosatti marcelo at kvack.org
Tue Jul 4 10:27:10 EDT 2006


On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:38:40PM -0800, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> I try to put usb8388_A1_W8015FP14_FW2.bin on /lib/firmware

You need to copy it to /lib/firmware/usb8388.bin or specify
fw_name="usb8388_A1_W8015FP14_FW2.bin" when loading the module.

> But nothing is work.

Look at kernel output with "dmesg", what does it say? There should be 
messages from the driver...

> I also try mrv8k and nothing is work too.
> 
> I want to try ndiswrapper again but cannot find and working .sys to put in 
> /etc/ndiswrapper
> 
> If any one make usb8388_A1_W8015FP14_FW2.bin to work correctly please let 
> me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> supat
> 
> ps. I found fedora.img work now but has keyboard bug on some config and 
> need to re-plug-in the keyboard.
> 
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:20:54AM -0800, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> >>
> >>I got usb8xxx.ko compiled but no way to insmod correctly.
> >>
> >>I use it with command in readme said:
> >>
> >>insmod usb8388.ko [fw_name=usb8388.bin]
> >>
> >>I cannot find usb8388.bin but got usb8388_FW1.bin from Marvell
> >
> >You need to use usb8388_A1_W8015FP14_FW2.bin:
> >
> >https://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=160&pId=38
> >
> >>However, it always has error:
> >>
> >>insmod: error inserting './usb8xxx.ko': -1 Invalid module format
> >
> >What kernel version are you running and what version you compiled
> >the module for?
> >
> >You probably compiled for a different version than what you're running.
> >



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