[OLPC-devel] Re: [One Laptop Per Child] #59: Marvell wireless won't run from LinuxBIOS

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 19:28 -0800, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> Dear James Cameron,
> 
> I did used version told by Jim on September 1:
> 
> vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2608.olpc1
> 
> Also, I verified myself using 2.6.18-rc2
> 
> Both can boot via fedora with Marvell wireless support.
> 
> But if boot using slackware then Marvell wireless will not go up.
> It will complain firmware did not exist.
> 
> It was too fast to conclude that this bug was fixed after you test it only 
> on fedora. I insist that it has problem under slackware.
> 
> Before this problem exist I see that under both fedora and slackware with 
> old BIOS do has problem on detecting Marvell wireless.
> 
> But after modprobe and rmmod it can solve the problem.
> 
> Now how many modprobe and rmmod cannot detect Marvell wireless under 
> slackware but work fine only under fedora only.
> 
> Ofcause I use the same kernel and modules on both system.
> 
> All modules and kernel under fedora got no problem but none of them can 
> made Marvell wireless to work any more under slackware.

The _kernel_ might be the same, but are udev and hotplug?  The kernel
asks hotplug to get the firmware for it when a kernel module calls
request_firmware(), and those parts are more distribution-defined
because both udev and hotplug are entirely in user space.  Make sure
that you also have the firmware in the same place that slackware thinks
it should be in.

Dan

> supat
> 
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, James Cameron wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:51:51PM -0800, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> >> I will wait for new buildrom that cause no problem on Marvell wireless.
> >
> > But this bug was fixed and closed!
> > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/59
> > As of buildrom version 20060828-1.
> >
> > What LinuxBIOS version did you use??
> >
> >> At this moment, I verify that current LinuxBIOS has problem on SLAKWARE
> >> but no problem on fedora.
> >
> > Why is Slakware a problem?  Development is based on Fedora.  What
> > happens?  Have you logged a bug in trac yet?
> >
> > -- 
> > James Cameron    mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org     http://quozl.netrek.org/
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