Bug 148194

Summary:	Ipw2200 firmware loading problems with udev >094
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Antti Mäkelä <zarhan>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Antti Mäkelä 2006-09-19 07:19:36 UTC

If I upgrade my udev to the any version beyond 094, including 100-r2, firmware loading does not happen properly upon bootup.

On bootup, this happens:

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -1
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -1
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:14:02.0 failed with error -5

If I after that, in console, do a rmmod ipw2200 && modprobe ipw2200, I get

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection

and it works properly.

According to http://www.openthought.org/blosxom.cgi/2006/02/13 the firmware helper rule should be placed last (as "999-firmware-helper"). Maybe this is the cause - now firmwarehelper is in the middle of 50-udev.rules..

My kernel version is 2.6.16 and firmware for ipw2200 is 2.4.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-19 07:24:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147894 ***

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-29 09:30:39 UTC

Reopen to dupe properly...

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-29 09:30:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147006 ***