NetBSD Problem Report #43203

From asau@inbox.ru  Sat Apr 24 13:51:07 2010
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:50:51 +0400
From: Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>
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Subject: iwn doesn't load firmware

>Number:         43203
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       iwn doesn't load firmware
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 24 13:55:00 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date:    Fri Nov 26 22:23:41 +0000 2010
>Last-Modified:  Fri Nov 26 22:23:41 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.27
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lithium 5.99.27 NetBSD 5.99.27 (KERN) #3: Sun Apr 11 12:38:40 MSD 2010 asau@lithium:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/KERN i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	After recent changes in iwn driver kernel doesn't load firmware anymore:

Apr 20 23:57:38 lithium /netbsd: iwn0: could not get firmware handle iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
Apr 20 23:57:38 lithium /netbsd: iwn0: could not read firmware
>How-To-Repeat:
	Build kernel after April 20, boot and try to use iwn NIC.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, 
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/43203: iwn doesn't load firmware
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:07:56 -0400

 On Apr 24,  1:55pm, asau@inbox.ru (Aleksej Saushev) wrote:
 -- Subject: kern/43203: iwn doesn't load firmware

 | >Number:         43203
 | >Category:       kern
 | >Synopsis:       iwn doesn't load firmware
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 24 13:55:00 +0000 2010
 | >Originator:     Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>
 | >Release:        NetBSD 5.99.27
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | System: NetBSD lithium 5.99.27 NetBSD 5.99.27 (KERN) #3: Sun Apr 11 12:38:40 MSD 2010 asau@lithium:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/KERN i386
 | Architecture: i386
 | Machine: i386
 | >Description:
 | 	After recent changes in iwn driver kernel doesn't load firmware anymore:
 | 
 | Apr 20 23:57:38 lithium /netbsd: iwn0: could not get firmware handle iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
 | Apr 20 23:57:38 lithium /netbsd: iwn0: could not read firmware
 | >How-To-Repeat:
 | 	Build kernel after April 20, boot and try to use iwn NIC.

 Is the new firmware installed?

 christos

From: Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/43203: iwn doesn't load firmware
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:28:35 +0400

 christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

 >  Is the new firmware installed?

 Thanks.

 Updating instructions should be updated with firmware considerations.

From: "S.P.Zeidler" <spz@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/43203 CVS commit: src/share/man/man4
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 19:27:25 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	spz
 Date:		Thu May 27 19:27:24 UTC 2010

 Modified Files:
 	src/share/man/man4: iwn.4

 Log Message:
 help the next person tripping over PR kern/43203 :
 list the error messages, the reason for the error and the location where
 the firmware ought to be


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 src/share/man/man4/iwn.4

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: asau@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:23:41 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
I'm satisfied with current state.


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