Re: libertas sdio wlan not working.

From: Daniel Mack
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 12:10:26 EST


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:34:53PM +0530, SARDAR SHARIFF wrote:
> I am using Linux 2.6.28. Im using marvell SD8686 wlan chip.
>
> I downloaded the firmwares from marvell site.
>
> I do the following:
>
>
> # insmod libertas.ko libertas_debug=0x5063a7
> # libertas_sdio helper_name=helper_sd.bin fw_name=sd8686.bin
> libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
> libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
> libertas_sdio mmc0:0001:1: firmware: requesting helper_sd.bin
>
> libertas: can't load helper firmware
> libertas: failed to load helper firmware
> libertas_sdio: probe of mmc0:0001:1 failed with error -2

You need to have a userspace daemon running that serves the firmware to
the driver. This is typically done by udev, see

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html

And note that there is a dedicated mailing list for that devices:

http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/libertas-dev

Daniel

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