Problems iwi load

Bakul Shah bakul at BitBlocks.com
Sun Mar 12 17:48:37 UTC 2006


> Martin Wilke wrote:
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> > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:33:15 +0200
> > Panagiotis Astithas <past at ebs.gr> wrote:
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> > 
> > Thx and done,
> > 
> > the new problem after load "if_iwi" is "firmeware_get: faild to load
> > image iwi-bss". i have firmware form the ports "without iwicontrol"
> > installed.
> 
> 
> Are you sure it is iwi-bss and not iwi_bss? The firmware support is 
> looking for /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko IIUC, so if you don't have it, you 
> should "cd /sys/modules/iwi_fw; make install". The port should not be 
> necessary any more.

The dependency is on iwi-bss as per the error message, not
iwi_bss.  There is no such module as iwi_fw.  There is iwifw
but it is empty.  My guess is something is not checked in.

I thought people were supposed to check things build before
commiting?


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