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

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 20:48 -0800, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
> 
> 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.

Fedora requires firmware in /lib/firmware.  The Marvell firmware should
be renamed to:

/lib/firmware/usb8388.bin

Dan

> 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?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> James Cameron    mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org     http://quozl.netrek.org/
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