Re: ipw2200 only works as a module?

[Bharath Ramesh <krosswindz@gmail.com>]

When the kernel is booting it tries to locate the ipw-2.2 firmware
which cannot be found as the filesystems are yet to be mounted. The
firmware normally resides in the /lib directory. Its always advisable
to use drivers which require firmware loading as modules so that when
you try loading the module you have your file system already mounted.

On 9/26/05, Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> With CONFIG_IPW2200=y I get:
>
> ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
>
> but with CONFIG_IPW2200=m it works fine. If it doesn't work when built into the
> kernel, why even give people the option?
>
> BTW, a better error message than "Reason -2" would be nice. =)
>
> Keenan Pepper
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