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From: Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] can't install 9front kernels
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 06:36:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546594CA.5030706@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b41e15a4af587db06faca936f6f86731@felloff.net>

/lib/firmware was indeed the problem.

I have my wifi firmware there (and I need it there to use wifi), but
when I installed it, I just extracted all the iwl firmware files there,
not just the necessary one for my card. I deleted all files except for
the needed one and it now works.

Thanks a lot!

Fritz

Am 13.11.2014 um 23:21 schrieb cinap_lenrek@felloff.net:
> ok, i got your kernel images. and they are corrupt. they'r like 11MB in
> size (normal kernel, even with iwl blobs is like 6MB, 8MB is max) so they
> wont boot. my guess is that you have droped something into /lib/firmware
> or the bootfs that get embedded into the kernel image.
>
> verify that theres nothing under /lib/firmware, then mk clean and mk
> again would be my advice.
>
> --
> cinap
>




  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-14  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-13 20:33 sl
2014-11-13 21:41 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2014-11-13 21:45   ` cinap_lenrek
2014-11-13 22:21   ` cinap_lenrek
2014-11-14  5:36     ` Friedrich Psiorz [this message]
2014-11-13 21:28 Friedrich Psiorz
2014-11-13 21:36 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-11-13 21:43 ` cinap_lenrek

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