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

[Jim Gettys]

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.

I presume you are using the GIT kernel development tree hosted by David
Woodhouse on infradead.org.  If not, and are using a straight kernel.org
kernel, there is no reason you should expect things to work; not all the
drivers have been merged into Linus' tree as yet, though we're working
toward doing that as quickly as we can.

No one here runs slackware; you are on your own if it is a slackware
specific problem.
                                    Best regards,
                                       - Jim Gettys

> 
> 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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