Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:11:05 +0100 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Cc: PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy@yahoo.ca> Subject: Re: Zyxel NWD210N not accepted at boot time but after plugging it in again Message-ID: <201112171411.05872.bschmidt@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201112171258.56891.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> References: <201112171258.56891.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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On Saturday 17 December 2011 06:58:56 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple problem with this Zyxel wireless adaptor. I am not able to use it directly after a reboot. The interface becomes only available after I unplug it and plug it in again. > > I believe that this is the crucial message: > > run0: could not load 8051 microcode > > As I have said, it all works as expected after I plugged it in again. > > Here is my dmesg with the messages regarding the device. The first part is from the boot and the remaining is from the replugging. > > run0: <1.0> on usbus1 > run0: MAC/BBP RT2860 (rev 0x0102), RF RT2820 (MIMO 2T2R), address 00:19:cb:85:aa:76 > runfw: root not mounted yet, no way to load image > run0: failed loadfirmware of file runfw > run0: could not load 8051 microcode > device_attach: run0 attach returned 6 > run0: <1.0> on usbus1 > run0: MAC/BBP RT2860 (rev 0x0102), RF RT2820 (MIMO 2T2R), address 00:19:cb:85:aa:76 > run0: firmware RT2870 loaded > > I think that the explanation is so simple but I do not see it. run(4) tries to load the firmware on attach at which point the root filesystem isn't yet mounted. Actually I think the prefered behaviour is to load it during init, not sure this is possible for run(4) though. Someone should check this. :) As a workaround you can add runfw_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf -- Bernhard
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