On Sun, Jan 06 2008 - 21:10, Stephen Borrill wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Joel CARNAT wrote: >> It seems that wpi firmware is not loadable anymore on my Dell XPS M1330 >> since 4.99.46. The last working install I had was 4.99.40/i386. I was told >> on /amd64 that a T61 is working with 4.99.46 so this is possibly an issue >> with the M1330 rather than the whole wpi driver. >> >> The error is: "wpi0: fatal firmware error". > > Possibly a silly question - are you sure the transmitter is on? This is the > error you get if it's off and you attempt to ifconfig up the interface. Is > there a physical switch on the device? > Well... I didn't touch the physical switch between the netbsd-4 boot (which worked and from which I'm sending this mail) and the -current boot (which fails). I still double checked and yes, the switch is set to "ON".
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