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

[supat at supat.eu.org]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Dan Williams wrote:

> 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

Yes. udev and hotplug is my suspect and so far I cannot find out the 
problem.

I don't know where fedora/slackware think where firmware should be. I will 
try to find it out.

Before BIOS change both slackware and fedora know where is firmware 
located correctly. I think it got info from BIOS.

Thank you.

supat


>
>> 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?
>>>
>>> --
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