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Subject: Re: Best way to load iwi firmware for wpa_supplicant?
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:16:48AM +0200, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> 
> Why are you loading the module at all and not compile it into your kernel?

The firmware has to be loaded in addition of the module. When and how
to load the firmware is the problem, not when and how to load the
kernel module.o

cheers, t.