(Sorry if I broke the thread, I just subscribed...)
> > Also, it seems that if I insert the module while the interface is
> > plugged in, the firmware download fails. If I load the module, then
> > plug in the device, the firmware download works fine...
> That's probably because the hardware only allows the firmware to be loaded
>once. If you try to load it a second time it hangs. According the the
>FreeBSD driver we can check to see if the firmware has allready been loaded
>by checking the device version. Though I think we need to force that to be
>reread because it appears to be cached.
> - Nick Lopez
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmmm I played with it some tonight, trying to get it to check for
firmware before the download.
If I call kaweth_control to read the MAC id (assuming I'm doing it
right... no docs from KLSI yet...) it returns successfully whether or
not the firmware is loaded. The BSD driver seemed to say that it would
fail without firmware.
So, I let kaweth_probe fill mac_addr with 0xFF's, then tried to read the
MAC id, and compared what I got to 0xFF.
This works... except when I do this MAC id query, subsequent firmware
loading fails.
i.e., if I use the original kaweth.c to load the firmware, then use my
modified code and try to re-load firmware, it reads the MAC id
correctly, and skips the firmware download. However, trying to load it
the first time with my new code fails. :/
Also, the original code seems to have problems if you load the module
while the adapter is plugged in. The only way I can get it to
successfully initialize is to load the driver, and then plug in the
adapter.
-Eric
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