On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 06:49:33AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
>> Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:16:08AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> > >
>> > > If the firmare image is not present at boot, no interface is created.
>> > > After installing the firmware with fw_update (which succeeds because
>> > > it looks for "iwm" in dmesg not ifconfig) there is no way to recover
>> > > the interface without a reboot because 'ifconfig iwm0' doesn't work.
>>
>> > If the mac address and the supported 802.11 modes depend on
>> > having the firmware loaded, is it really worth adding a
>> > interface that allows invalid parameters to be set?
>>
>> Maybe? See above. If I don't have firmware when I boot, but install firmware
>> later, the interface should still be useable. Putting the interface into a
>> "must reboot" state should be considered a bug.
>>
>
> I'd be surprised if the 802.11 reattach doesn't cause problems...
>
> Anyway here is the minimal version

Hi,
Unfortunately, neither of the two patchs works for me.
Errors are the same.
Is there something I can do to help debugging this?


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Mattieu Baptiste
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