firmware won't load on wireless card on boot

jonlake · 09-03-2005, 12:24 AM

FC2 kernel 2.6.6 custom

I have a Dlink card that requires the firmware be loaded everytime the computer boots. I downloaded a script that will load the firmware after the module is loaded. Right now I have the module loaded in /etc/modprobe.conf. I also added a script (1 line that calls the script to load the firmware) to /etc/rc.d/init.d. I added a link /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S07hostapfwload that points to the script in init.d. It needs to run before the networking script so that can intialize my wireless card.
When I boot, it appears that everything goes ok (no output), but the firmware doesn't get loaded.
I know this because when I boot, and if i have the wlan0 set to onboot=yes, it will hang on "bringing up wlan0". I looked in /var/log/messages and found that it keeps trying to broadcast for a dhcp address, but since the firmware isn't loaded, it just keeps trying. I have let it sit for about 1 minute and it will not get past this point.

Also, if I do an interactive boot, choose not to initiliaze the wlan0, and get to my prompt I cannot setup the card until I load the firmware. To load the firmware, I just use the command /usr/bin/hostap_fw_load wlan0. I don't know if I need something else in my script to let it load, this is my first attempt at putting anything in the
rc's, so I don't know if anything else needs to be done. I chmod 755 the script in init.d, so it does actually attempt to run.

Code:

# dmesg
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_pci: 0.2.0 - 2004-02-15 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
wifi0: Original COR value: 0xa8
hostap_pci: assuming no Primary image in flash - card initialization not completed
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x1f
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x21
Readback test failed, HCR 0x1f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 00 ce a1 ce
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
wifi0: Original COR value: 0xa1
Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f
wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xe8100000, irq=5
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
eth0: link down
wlan0: could not set interface UP - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fdc6 (len=12) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fdc1 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fc06 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fd42 (len=6) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fc0e (len=34) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fc84 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fc83 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fc82 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fc09 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot get RID fd48 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
prism2: wlan0: operating mode changed 3 -> 2
wlan0: cannot set RID fc00 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: cannot set RID fc0e (len=34) - no PRI f/w
hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
wifi0: cannot get RID fc28 (len=2) - no PRI f/w
Could not read current WEP flags.
wifi0: encryption setup failed
wlan0: set_encryption failed
wlan0: cannot set RID fc02 (len=34) - no PRI f/w
wlan0: could not set interface UP - no PRI f/w
wlan0 unsupported ioctl(0x8947)
wlan0: could not set interface UP - no PRI f/w
wlan0: could not set interface UP - no PRI f/w
prism2_download: dl_cmd=4 start_addr=0x003f0000 num_areas=3
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 0 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8000 v0.0.1
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.2
Could not get RID for component STA
wifi0: Failed to read STA f/w version - only Primary f/w present
prism2_download: dl_cmd=6 start_addr=0x003f0000 num_areas=3
wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 0 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8024 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.2
Could not get RID for component STA
wifi0: Failed to read STA f/w version - only Primary f/w present
prism2_download: dl_cmd=5 start_addr=0x003f0c01 num_areas=3
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 27 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x8024 v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.2
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.3
wlan0 unsupported ioctl(0x8947)
wifi0: LinkStatus=1 (Connected)
wifi0: LinkStatus: BSSID=00:0d:88:29:9f:b9

# less /var/log/messages

Sep  2 21:52:03 jon rc: Starting cups:  succeeded
Sep  2 21:52:03 jon kernel: eth0: link down
Sep  2 21:52:25 jon login(pam_unix)[1776]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Sep  2 21:52:25 jon  -- root[1776]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
Sep  2 21:52:34 jon dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Sep  2 21:52:35 jon dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Sep  2 21:52:35 jon dhclient: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
Sep  2 21:52:36 jon dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Sep  2 21:52:36 jon dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Sep  2 21:53:57 jon kernel: wifi0: NIC: id=0x8000 v0.0.1
Sep  2 21:53:57 jon kernel: wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.2
Sep  2 21:53:57 jon kernel: wifi0: NIC: id=0x8024 v1.0.0
Sep  2 21:53:57 jon kernel: wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.2
Sep  2 21:53:57 jon kernel: wifi0: NIC: id=0x8024 v1.0.0
Sep  2 21:53:57 jon kernel: wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.2
Sep  2 21:53:57 jon kernel: wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.3
Sep  2 21:54:02 jon login(pam_unix)[1776]: session closed for user root
Sep  2 21:54:07 jon gdm(pam_unix)[1979]: session opened for user jon by (uid=0)
Sep  2 21:54:25 jon gconfd (jon-2273): starting (version 2.6.0), pid 2273 user 'jon'
Sep  2 21:54:25 jon gconfd (jon-2277): starting (version 2.6.0), pid 2277 user 'jon'
Sep  2 21:54:25 jon gconfd (jon-2273): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-jon/lock/ior': probably a
nother process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable)
Sep  2 21:54:25 jon gconfd (jon-2277): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source a
t position 0
Sep  2 21:54:25 jon gconfd (jon-2277): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/jon/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Sep  2 21:54:25 jon gconfd (jon-2277): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at
 position 2
Sep  2 21:54:28 jon bonobo-activation-server (jon-2279): iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type
Sep  2 21:54:28 jon bonobo-activation-server (jon-2279): invalid character '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBad
Chars'
Sep  2 23:35:09 jon login(pam_unix)[2153]: session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
Sep  2 23:35:09 jon  -- root[2153]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
Sep  2 23:35:20 jon dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Sep  2 23:35:21 jon dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Sep  2 23:35:23 jon dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Sep  2 23:35:31 jon dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Sep  2 23:35:31 jon dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
Sep  2 23:35:31 jon dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.120 -- renewal in 1021779516 seconds.

Linux.tar.gz · 09-03-2005, 10:49 AM

I should be easier to load this with rc.local.

jonlake · 09-07-2005, 10:03 AM

Yea, that is what I was going to do, but then I thought I would try to get some experience with the other startup scripts. If anyone has an idea why this didn't work the way I originally had done it, please let me know.

Thanks

Linux.tar.gz · 09-08-2005, 12:31 AM

Perhaps this will help:
When you run a command (in a script) with & at the end ( ie: xmms& ) then xmms is launched but the following command is parallelized, so even if there's a hang with xmms, other stuff will follow.