When trying to use =net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-15.28.2.8 I logged the following error messages: Mar 26 18:08:52 tux iwl3945 0000:05:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode Mar 26 18:08:52 tux iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 Mar 26 18:08:52 tux iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
Please post your "emerge --info". Reopen this bug when you provide the requested information.
$ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.10 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-tuxonice i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2400_@_1.83GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p10-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US de de_DE de_AT it" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage /usr/local/vtport" SYNC="rsync://mirror.cc.vt.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi activefilter aim alsa amr amrnb amrwb apm aspell atm avahi bash-completion beagle berkdb bittorrent bl bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr ch chm cli cracklib crypt css cups curl curlwrappers daap dbus dbx dga dhcp divx djvu dri dssi dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eap-tls emboss encode evo exif fam fastcgi ffmpeg fftw flac flatfile fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif glut gmedia gmp gnuplot gpg gphoto2 gpm gps gtk hal hardened iconv icq idn ieee1394 ilbc imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg kde kde4 laptop latex libcaca libnotify logrotate lzo mad matroska mbrola midi mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mng modplug mp3 mp4 mpeg mppe-mppc msn mtp mudflap musicbrainz nano-syntax ncurses nls nocd nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs octave offensive ofx ogg ogm opengl openmp oscar pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qq qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radius readline realmedia reflection reiserfs ruby samba schroedinger sdl session silc smp snmp sockets socks5 speex spell spl srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog sysvipc tcpd theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tordns truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd videos vidix vim-syntax visualization vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xattr xcb xcomposite xml xorg xpm xrender xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INITNG_PLUGINS="also bash_launcher chdir chroot conflict cpout critical ctrlaltdel daemon_clean debug_commands envparser find fmon fstat history idleprobe initctl interactive iparser last limit lockfile logfile netdev netprobe ngc4 ngcs nge pause provide reload renice rlparser simple_launcher stcmd stdout suid syncron syslog sysreq unneeded usplash" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US de de_DE de_AT it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 intel vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Thank you for report. But if you read messages after package merge you'll see: elog "Due to ucode API change this version of ucode works only with kernels" elog ">=2.6.29-rc1. If you have to use older kernels please install ucode" elog "with older API:" elog "emerge ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:0" elog "For more information take a look at bugs.gentoo.org/246045" You have 2.6.28 kernel and that means you need to emerge -1 net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:0 and it should work. If not, please, open new bug.
Missed that during upgrade. Thanks.
