Re: zd1211rw couldn't load firmware. Error number -145 with Kernel 2.6.30

--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Mladen Horvat <acid-burn <at> opendreambox.org> wrote:

> Hi Hin-Tak
> 
> thanks for your fast answer.
> 
> The same stb only booted with a rt73usb wlan stick attached
> has no
> problems with the firmware upload and also wpa-supplicant
> connection and
> everything works on wlan0.  only problem are these two
> zd1211b usb sticks in the
> zd1211rw driver i have here.
> 
> the same stb running a kernel 2.6.12 and the original
> vendor driver 2.22.00
> works without problems..
> 
> i will take a look what happens with an externally powered
> usb hub.
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> If any other logs are needed i will provide them.

Well, if the vendor driver 2.22.00 works with 2.6.12, you can grab my patch set (sorry it is 'pathset' in the
web location - I made a mistake in May and haven't fixed it yet):
http://htl10.users.sourceforge.net/ZD1211LnxDrv_2_22_0_0_2009May_pathset/ 

which would take you up to 2.6.29. I haven't tried 2.6.30 as I already moved to the vendor driver 3.0 by then.
You need the other patch set

http://htl10.users.sourceforge.net/LinuxUSB_AR2524-3.0.0.56_2009May_pathset/
to take you up to 2.6.29, and the last one (attached) to take you to 2.6.30.. It may also work for the 2.22
driver but I haven't tried, but it will at least give you some ideas if you like to make the vendor 2.22 driver
work on 2.6.30.

The 3.0 vendor driver is at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/zd1211/LinuxUSB_AR2524-3.0.0.56.tgz

Hmm, the firmware upload problem seems to have come up from time to time...

if either versions of the vendor drivers work (but the rw driver does not) I like to know. You will need to set
up the blacklist to stop udev from autoloading kernel modules, but presumably you already know that.

      

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