Bug 112628 – ipw2100-firmware load failed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Jan 2005-11-15 12:10:53 UTC]

modprobe ipw2100

dmesg 

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.
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:04.0 disabled
ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5

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emerge --info
Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r0,
2.6.15-rc1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-rc1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector
-msse2"CHOST="i686-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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector -msse2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccach collision-protect distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms
strict test userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 avi bzlib caca calendar cdr cgi cli
cpdflib crypt cups dhcp divx encode esd evo exif flac foomaticdb ftp gd-external
gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml hal hbci howl iconv ipv6 irda jpeg
ldap libwww live mad maildir mbox md5sum mikmod mmx mng mono motif mozilla
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg mppe-mppc mysql ncurses netapplet
nls nntp nptl nsplugin oggvorbis opengl openssh pam pcmcia pcre pdflib php
plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl session simplexml
slang sockets spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tiff transcode truetype unicode usb
userlocales vhosts videos wavelan win32codecs wmf xface xfs xml xml2 xmlrpc xosd
xv zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

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I tried with ipw2100 driver and kernel modul ipw2100

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rmmod ipw2100
and 
modprobe ipw2100 again doesn't help



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe ipw2100
2.
3.

[Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-11-15 12:27:10 UTC]

* Do you have net-wireless/ipw2100-firmware-1.3 installed?

* Did you try with the ipw2100 compiled as a module?

* Which version of sys-fs/udev are you using?

[Comment 2 Jan 2005-11-15 12:40:25 UTC]

* Do you have net-wireless/ipw2100-firmware-1.3 installed?

Yes I have

* Did you try with the ipw2100 compiled as a module?

Yes I tried

* Which version of sys-fs/udev are you using?

emerge -p udev

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-fs/udev-073

[Comment 3 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-11-15 13:35:53 UTC]

Remember to reopen.

[Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-11-15 15:35:53 UTC]

Please try downgrading to sys-fs/udev-058 and see if that fixes the problem.

Did firmware loading ever work for you?

[Comment 5 Jan 2005-11-16 11:00:57 UTC]

ipw2100 works with udev-069 quite fine

[Comment 6 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-11-17 01:57:18 UTC]

So you're saying that udev-070 and above doesn't work for you?

[Comment 7 Jan 2005-11-17 06:38:57 UTC]

for udev-070 and above the ipw2100-fimeware doesn't work and after downgrading 
to udev-060 my mouse device is gone

[Comment 8 Justin 2010-01-21 17:02:18 UTC]

Has this, in fact, been resolved?
I have gentoo-hardened installed.  On the heels of that, I have installed hotplug, coldplug (both enabled at boot), ipw2100-firmware-1.3.
I have configured the kernel without ipw2100 support, with ipw2100 support, and with ipw2100 support as a module.
The firmware is installed in /lib/firmware, precisely where it is (according to the docs) supposed to be found.
I'm running udev 1.4.6-r1.

And, the reason for all this query, I still see the exact same errors as the original poster.