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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:21:49 -0600
From: Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.net>
To: sabotage@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Can't load wifi adapter firmware
On 11/14/2014 7:11 PM, Henrique Lengler wrote:
> And download the firmware and put it on the firmware folder of my distro.
> As I do in gentoo I'm putting the firmware in /lib/firmware, but
> sabotage fails
> to load it.
> The error I get are:
>
> ~ # dmesg | grep firmware
> [ 3.236964} usb 3-3: ath9k_htc: failed to get firmware htc_9271.fw
Because you built it into the kernel, it's trying to load the firmware
before mounting your root partition. You need to build the firmware into
the kernel. See CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE.
--
Regards,
Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.net>
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