Hi, after emerge ipw2100 and ipw2100-firmware I can't load the modules using "modprobe ipw2100". The following error occurs: ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed. ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2 ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter. ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware. ipw2100Error calling register_netdev. ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:0a.0 failed with error -5 I try something and get it worked by manually copy the 3 firmware files form /lib/firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. After that I can load the modul and use the internal Mini-PCI Wireless NIC to get network access. Pleas check it out and may be edit the path for the needed firmware files or insert a info message to the emerge output. Thank you in advance & greeting from Munich Benjamin Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge ipw2100-firmware 2. take a look where the files will be installed 3. should be /lib/firmware instead of /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware Actual Results: can't load ipw2100 modul. Expected Results: load ipw2100 modul corret.
Which version of sys-apps/hotplug do you have installed? Please attach the output of 'emerge --info' as well.
Hi Brix, sorry for the delay. Below the requested information. <Which version of sys-apps/hotplug do you have installed? Should be the last stable version 20040923. Below the output of genlop -t hotplug:bash-2.05b# genlop -t hotplug * sys-apps/hotplug Sat Oct 16 15:48:47 2004 >>> sys-apps/hotplug-20040401 merge time: 5 seconds. Sun May 15 23:16:27 2005 >>> sys-apps/hotplug-20040923 merge time: 17 seconds. <Please attach the output of 'emerge --info' as well. Output of emerge --info: bash-2.05b# emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 16 2005, 02:52:34)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Thanks. What does 'grep ^FIRMWARE_DIR /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent' yield?
<Thanks. What does 'grep ^FIRMWARE_DIR /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent' yield? bash-2.05b# grep ^FIRMWARE_DIR /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent FIRMWARE_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware bash-2.05b#
> bash-2.05b# grep ^FIRMWARE_DIR /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent > FIRMWARE_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware Looks like you have neglected to update your /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent using etc-update upon upgrading sys-apps/hotplug. The /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent file from sys-apps/hotplug-20040923 specifies FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware. Please re-merge sys-apps/hotplug and run 'etc-update' for updating your configuration files.
<Looks like you have neglected to update your /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent using <etc-update upon upgrading sys-apps/hotplug. Right, I negelected to update the configuration file using etc-update. <The /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent file from sys-apps/hotplug-20040923 specifies <FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware. Correct, after running etc-update and replace the original configuration file with the updated one, /lib/firmware is the default firmware folder. Sorry for inconvenience and a lot of thanks for your support. Greetings, Benjamin
Glad to hear you have it working now :)
