tried removing sdio8686.bin from /lib/modules/libertas again. And this time it failed (as I expected it to). Too much focus, or too much wine!
Time for bed On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:05 PM, George Hunt <georgejh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I downloaded James new kernel. And found that it did indeed bring up the > graphics chip, and considerable functionality.(light-dm seems to take > 90%cpu for 30 seconds, before xfce desktop comes up -- a symptom I have not > fully explored) > > But when I looked at the dmesg, there was mention of not being able to > load the libeertas firmware sd8686-v8. The rpm which is in the fc22 repo > for libertas came down as: > > [root@localhost ~]# dnf download libertas-sd8686-firmware.noarch > Last metadata expiration check performed 0:10:53 ago on Thu Jun 4 > 14:01:59 2015. > libertas-sd8686-firmware-20150410-49.gitec89525 9.4 kB/s | 14 kB > 00:01 > [DRPM] > libertas-sd8686-firmware-20150410-49.gitec89525b.fc22_20150521-52.git3161bfa4.fc22.noarch.drpm: > done > Delta RPMs reduced 0.1 MB of updates to 0.0 MB (88.1% saved) > > [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qlp > libertas-sd8686-firmware-20150521-52.git3161bfa4.fc22.noarch.rpm > /usr/lib/firmware/libertas > /usr/lib/firmware/libertas/sd8686_v9.bin > /usr/lib/firmware/libertas/sd8686_v9_helper.bin > /usr/share/doc/libertas-sd8686-firmware > /usr/share/doc/libertas-sd8686-firmware/LICENCE.Marvell > /usr/share/doc/libertas-sd8686-firmware/WHENCE > [root@localhost ~]# > > So I cloned the dev.laptop.org/git/linux.firmware repo, and put the the > sd8686-v8.bin and ....helper.bin into the /lib/firmware/libertas/ folder. > > The dmesg error message went away, and the wifi adapter could list > beacons. > > When I went back to verify, by removing the sd8686.bin-v8, and reboot. I > still got no error. > > I do not know whether firmware is persistent across reboots. I "egrep'ed" > all of the kernel, and could not find where sd8686-v8.bin is hard coded. > > Is this a situation where a symlink would be appropriate? (as in /boot for > vmlinuz and initramfs) > > I'm sort of in over my head. There's so much I don't know. >
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