Direct firmware load failed with error 2

[Ben Greear]

Maybe add some printks in your driver to see exactly what it is trying to load?

Maybe firmware is in wrong location?

errno 2 == ENOENT, which probably means something like 'could not find file'.

Thanks,
Ben


On 10/24/2016 12:55 PM, cmckay at abineau.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to add a Silex PCEAC or Compex WLE900VX (both QCA9880) mini PCIe card to a Toradex Apalis iMX6 SOM on their Ixora card. I added a BSP layer to Toradex's standard build, simply adding the ath10k and noting more.
> I keep running into the following error:
>
> [ 7.063663] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x01000000-0x011ff]
> [ 7.172118] ath10k: pci irq MSI
> [ 7.198024] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error 2
> [ 7.209646] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to user helper
> [ 8.626488] ath10k: could not fetch board data (-2)
> [ 8.648471] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error 2
> [ 8.693701] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to user helper
> [ 8.712302] ath10k: could not fetch board data (-2)
> [ 8.722757] ath10k: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
> [ 8.781868] ath10k: could not probe fw (-2)
> [ 8.781874] ath10k: failed to register driver core: -2
> [ 8.782041] ath10k_pci: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -2
>
> I've tried the firmware-2, firmware-5 and Candella firmware. I can't find any information on what this error means or how to debug this issue. And the vendors are struggling to get me a solution.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Colin McKay
>
>
>
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