[driverloader] tel 2100 on D800 - linux crash

[Marc Boucher]

1.38 will also include a minor change that silences the
"probe of 0000:0x:xx.x failed with error -5" messages.

Cheers
Marc

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:38:26AM -0500, Marc Boucher wrote:
> The "driverloader: probe of 0000:0x:xx.x failed with error -5"
> errors are in fact normal. Basically driverloader advertises that it
> can handle all PCI IDs so that it gets called by the kernel for each
> unknown device (of any type) and then looks if a Windows INF for the
> device is present under /var/lib/driverloader/. If yes, it claims the
> device, otherwise it returns -EIO (-5), causing the kernel to emit the
> messages you are seeing.
> 
> What is not normal, in Emmanuel's case, is the following error:
> 
> > driverloader: unable to load "/var/lib/driverloader/w70n51.sys" (-5)
> 
> because he has only the w70n51.inf file, but not the corresponding
> w70n51.sys file under /var/lib/driverloader.
> 
> Perhaps the absence of the file is due to the crash he was experiencing.
> 
> We will be releasing 1.38 with some important 2.6-specific fixes shortly.
> Please try it (or any newer version) and if the problem persists, please
> contact support at linuxant.com
> 
> Thanks
> Marc