prism2 firmware is not loaded
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-wlan-ng (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Tormod Volden |
Bug Description
I have installed the linux-wlan-
I tried to manually run /etc/init.d/wlan but it fails because /etc/wlan/shared looks up /proc/net/p80211/ which does not exist (even if the ieee80211 module is loaded). Then I tried to hardcode the expected wlan_nsdname to prism2 so that it would run the prism2_fwload function. This gives warnings like "prism2dl: warning: Failed to find PDR for plugrec 0x0405." and finally "Failed to enable the device, resultcode= implementation_
At this point dmesg confirm that I finally have updated the firmware (RAM). And it is reloaded at reboot. But - if I unplug the device and replug it, it ends up with its original firmware version.
This is running dapper flight 3, with updated linux-wlan-ng 0.2.3-1ubuntu1. My device is a 0x8026.
Changed in linux-wlan-ng: | |
status: | Needs Info → Unconfirmed |
linux-wlan-ng is now ubuntu7. Do you still have this issue? Thank you.