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Bug 272744

Summary: net-wireless/iwl5000-ucode-8.24.2.12 intel iwl 5300agn could not read microcode
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Bjoern Thorwirth <Bjoern.Thorwirth>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Tony Vroon (RETIRED) <chainsaw>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: mobile+disabled
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Bjoern Thorwirth 2009-06-05 08:47:34 UTC 
When i try to get my iwl 5300 agn up i got:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
demsg says:
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27k
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24
iwlagn: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
wmaster0 (iwlagn): not using net_device_ops yet
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
wlan0 (iwlagn): not using net_device_ops yet
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27k
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300AGN REV=0x24
iwlagn: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
wmaster0 (iwlagn): not using net_device_ops yet
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
wlan0 (iwlagn): not using net_device_ops yet
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:09:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlagn: iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwlagn: Could not read microcode: -2
 solved the problem
downgrade to net-wireless/iwl5000-ucode-5.4.0.11
emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:45:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config"
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/splash /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=nocona -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ "
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5 -s"
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/desktop-effects /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome /usr/portage/local/layman/jyujin /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment /usr/portage/local/layman/wolf31o2 /usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/local-overlay /usr/portage/local/initng-portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="64bit X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi ada alsa amarok amd64 apache2 arts audiofile authdaemond avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi bindist blas bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr chm clearcase cli config_wizard cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups dbus dga djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dxr3 eds emacs emboss encode esd evo extraicons extramodules fam fame fat fbcon fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran fuse gcj gd gdbm gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm gs gsm gstreamer gtk hal hdaps hfs iconv icq id3 ieee1394 imap inkjar inotify ipv6 irc irda isdnlog jabber jack java jfs jingle joystick jpeg kde kdeprefix kipi kqemu lame laptop latex lcd ldap libcaca libnotify libwww live lm_sensors lzo mad mail maildir matroska midi mikmod mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mpi mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses network new-login nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg ole openal openexr opengl openmp oss pam pascal pcmcia pcre pdf perl php pmu png postgres povray ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotas rar rdesktop readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs rss ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session shout skins slp sms sndfile speex spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype tta unicode usb vcd visualization voice vorbis wavpack weather wifi winbind wma wmf wxwindows x264 xcb xfs xine xinerama xiph xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to load iwlagn module
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
it fails because microcode could not be read
Comment 1 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-06-05 10:42:50 UTC 
You need both slots. API 2 firmware is only for 2.6.30 kernels.

emerge =iwl5000-ucode-5.4.0.11