if you do an strace on ifconfig as it is bringing the interface up you will see the device that the driver is looking for to load the firmware and not finding. i am not that expert to know what it is , but i have found a way around the problem for all drivers that have this firmware loading problem, and that is to use the facility available to compile the firmware "blob" directly into the kernel.
put the firmware in the subdirectory of the kernel tree named firmware and then go into the kernel configuration(Device drivers/Generic Driver Options/Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary) and list their names there. it seems customary to put them in a subdir in exactly the same way as in the /lib/firmware dir and then list the path/name (eg zd1211/zd1211b_ub) in the config option. recompile the kernel. no more firmware problems. fractoid On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 06:28:42PM +1000, Krzysztof Stankiewicz wrote: > > Im developing on LPC3250 NPX Embedded system, Ive placed the firmawere where > instructed, > and I keep getting this error no matter what I do? > Ive gone as far ast tracing the kernel stack but makes no sense to me.. can > anyone help? > > > usb 1-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2 > zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
