[Prism54-users] can't load firmware on FC# (kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3)

[Maximilian Engelhardt]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 22:34 +0200, Franco wrote:
> Hello. It's me again... sorry :-(
> A few months ago I managed to set-up my prism54 card,
> thanks to the help from people in this list.
> Now that I have upgraded the system (from Fedora Core 2
> to Fedora Core 3) it doesn't work again.
> Briefly, if I do a:
> 		
> 	 rmmod prism54 ; modprobe prism54
> 	 dmesg -c
> 
> I get this:
> 
>   eth0: removing device
>   Unloaded prism54 driver
>   Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
>   ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
>   ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
>   eth0: resetting device...
>   eth0: uploading firmware...
>   prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
>   eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
>   eth0: islpci_reset: failure
> 
> 
> I checked all the things from the past emails
> and the README on prism54 site. See the output of these
> commands:
> 
> #>  cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
> /sbin/hotplug
> 
> #> /sbin/hotplug 
> AgentName values on this system:  dasd firmware ieee1394 input net pci scsi tape usb
> 
> #> /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
> Firmware '' event not supported
> 
> #> ls -l /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> total 192
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 93996 Jul  3  2004 isl3880
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 93996 Jul  3  2004 isl3890

The firmware directory has changed with newer hotplug versions
to /lib/firmware/

With 'grep "FIRMWARE_DIR=" /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent' you can test in
which directory hotplug is looking for the firmware.

> 
> Also, the kernel is 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 and I have updated
> all the package in the system with their respective stable
> versions.... 

Maxi
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