Hi Brandon, I have been complaining about the same issue for the past six weeks. And our management team is inches away from giving up on both Intel and Canonical because of the lack of attention to the problem.
We have begun testing with Moblin, and it solves the WiMax issue, by utilizing a 2.6.30 kernel instead of the .31. But at least for us, connmand is not an option, and therefore, is not a long term solution. We are reopening talks with Montevista and Wind River because the situation has gotten so bad. Wish I had better news, but from one end user to another, the news is just not positive. Sorry Kevin Fries Senior Linux R&D Engineer CCT, Inc a Japan Communications Inc Company --- original message --- From: "Brandon Dell" <[email protected]> Subject: Intel 5350 Firmware Download Issue Date: November 16, 2009 Time: 8:54:55 AM My name is Brandon and I am fairly new to driver development. I am having a tough time getting the default Intel 5350 WiMax driver to work on my system. I am running Linux 2.6.31.2. I first tried using the card in my laptop's mini-PCie slot. The Wifi portion works great but the WiMax side was dead. Thinking it was because my internal mini PCIe slot did not support USB I purchased an external adapter from HWtools.net<http://hwtools.net/>(http://hwtools.net/Adapter/USBMA.html) that has been tested with the 5350(http://www.bplus.com.tw/PDF/Compatibility_List.pdf) and supposedly should work. However, I am still getting the following errors upon connecting the device: [ 38.999626] i2400m_usb 8-1:1.0: firmware: requesting i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbcf [ 39.361610] i2400m_usb 8-1:1.0: boot-mode cmd 2: incomplete transfer (512 vs 16384 submitted) [ 39.361746] i2400m_usb 8-1:1.0: fw i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbcf: section #1 (@644 16384 B) failed -5 [ 39.361865] i2400m_usb 8-1:1.0: fw i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbcf: download failed: -5 [ 39.361994] i2400m_usb 8-1:1.0: cannot bootstrap device: -5 [ 39.389521] i2400m_usb 8-1:1.0: cannot setup device: -5 [ 39.389647] i2400m_usb: probe of 8-1:1.0 failed with error -5 I placed the firmware files, i2400m-fw-1.3.sbcf and i2400m-fw-1.4.sbcf, in my /lib/firmware folder. This problem is driving me crazy. I think I have all the hardware I need to support the card but I have run out of ideas at this point. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brandon
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