Bug 180647

Summary: prism54 firmware fails to load on boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Martin Ebourne <fedora>
Component: udevAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Fixed In Version: FC-6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Martin Ebourne 2006-02-09 18:27:01 UTC
Description of problem:
Latest errata of udev prevents prism54 firmware from loading at boot up. Works
ok after bootup has finished.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
udev-071-0.FC4.2

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Possess machine with prism54 wireless card configured to work at boot (mine
is PCI)
2. Install udev-071-0.FC4.2
3. Reboot
  
Actual results:
The prism54 wireless card is not initialised. The following appears in messages:

Feb  9 17:59:33 hordein kernel: firmware_loading_store: unexpected value (0)
Feb  9 17:59:33 hordein kernel: prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
Feb  9 17:59:33 hordein kernel: wireless: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
Feb  9 17:59:33 hordein kernel: wireless: islpci_reset: failure

Expected results:
The prism54 wireless card should be initialised and work. The above messages
should not be in the log file.

Additional info:
Discovered this when upgrading to kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4, which pulled in the
new udev. Also booted to the previous kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 with the new
udev, same failure. On reverting to udev-058-1.0.FC4.1 and booting into
kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 it all works again.

Only appears to affect prism54 initialisation at bootup. If I subsequently:
  rmmod prism54
  modprobe prism54
  ifup wireless
it all works. I'm not sure if the module even needs reloading.

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2006-02-10 11:28:44 UTC
and you have the file "isl3890" ??

Comment 2 Martin Ebourne 2006-02-10 11:45:04 UTC
Of course, otherwise it wouldn't have worked before the upgrade, after I
downgraded back to udev-058 (which fixes it), or if I manually initialise the
card while still running udev-071. The only time it doesn't work is at boot with
udev-071.

% ls -al /lib/firmware/isl3890
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 93996 Aug 18  2004 /lib/firmware/isl3890

I don't think the firmware location can have moved again since it does work
after boot with a manual ifup. I've checked the firmware from prism54.org and it
is the latest version.

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2006-02-10 12:58:58 UTC
Please check /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and make sure, this rule is NOT in
there...

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ENV{FIRMWARE}=="*", \
        RUN+="/sbin/firmware_helper"


Comment 4 Martin Ebourne 2006-02-10 23:31:45 UTC
Those lines are not present in 058 (which is working for me).

They are present, but are commented out with '#' in 071 (which isn't working).
There don't appear to be any other firmware related lines in any files in that
directory.

Comment 5 Martin Ebourne 2006-11-26 23:25:33 UTC
Just found this old bug. This was fixed with or during FC5, and is working
correctly here with FC6.