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Old 10th June 2013
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Originally Posted by unkmail View Post
But loadfirmware() just read whole file into malloced kernel memory buffer, it known nothing about underlaing wifi chip. So for me this looks like strange FS problem.
Glad you mentioned that. I took another look at the dmesg's. The part related to potential filesystem problem is this line:

Code:
athn0: failed loadfirmware of file athn-ar9271 (error 2)
This line was not displayed all the time, in fact it may have only happened the first time. What I now suspect is that there is no problem related to that line, probably the firmware was just not installed yet on that boot. How it got into my problem report here is that the dmesg command (run after several reboots) printed several complete dmesg's (it seems to print a whole buffer). Only the first one had this particular error (which may have happened just once on each machine). The above line occurs only in the amd64 dmesg I posted, for example.

So I strongly suspect that little part of the mystery is now solved. The main events remain, of course.
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