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drizer
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 Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: ipw2200 firmware error |
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I'm getting the firmware error on my laptop ( fujitsu P7010 ) with kernel source 2.6.15 version of ipw2200, any clues? ideas? on how to load the driver correctly?
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ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:0d.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:01:0d.0 failed with error -5
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Did you emerge firmware? Check with
| Code: | | emerge -pv ipw2200-firmware |
Remove the -pv to actually emerge it. You should have
| Code: | # ls -l /lib/firmware/ipw*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12007 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6472 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-boot.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168344 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-bss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16334 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162884 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-ibss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16312 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168344 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16344 Nov 27 23:28 /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw |
BTW, which version of 2.6.15 are you running? ipw2200 version should read
| Code: | | ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8 |
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drizer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:13 am Post subject: |
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The firmware is there in the /lib/firmware dir and the ipw2200 build from kernel 2.6.15...
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
I have also tried using emerge ipw2200 source and removing the driver from the kernel source but stil the same firmware error... grrr |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Which version of udev? And do you have hotplug installed?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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Which version of udev? And do you have hotplug installed?
| Code: | [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-079-r1 (-selinux) 0 kB
[ebuild R ] sys-app/hotplug-20040923-r1 0 kB
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udev and hotplug seem to work, but i'm not sure how to check hotplug ? i think this is where the firmware should be loaded. |
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, it's hotplug, unless you changed udev rules. Set
| Code: | $ cat /etc/sysconfig/hotplug
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# hotplug configuration
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export DEBUG="yes" |
and check /var/log/messages after trying to modprobe ipw2200, you may find some more info. Note that the /etc/sysconfig directory doesn't exist, so you'll have to create it.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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No extra debug information with the sysconfig, but i did notice that coldplug loads the ipw2200 modules before hotplug is called... still get the same error when reloading the ipw2200 module after hotplug!!
maybe i need to check udevs rules? |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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I don't understand well. Do you see firmware requests to hotplug in /var/log/messages?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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etc-update or dispatch-conf?
I had the same error when i needed to update etc once |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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same error here
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same problem:
| dmesg | grep ipw wrote: |
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 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:05:05.0 failed with error -5
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I'm using kernel 2.6.16-rc2 with ipw builtin and udev 084.
Before upgrading the kernel, I was using the ipw2200 module (version 1.0.3) and it was working correctly.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| tane_stelzer wrote: | You cant have it built in, it has to be a modules.
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yes, compiling as module it works. Thanks!
I don't understand why it allowed me to compile the driver builtin instead of module (and why does it need to be a module?) |
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I am glad it worked, i dont know why i just remembered when i had problems with my ipw2200 i read it somewhere in these forums.
Well i dont like the kernel ones i prefer to emerge them via portage that just always worked for me, the kernel just always caused trouble,
you guys might want to try that incase you are using the kernel onces.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| tane_stelzer wrote: | | I am glad it worked, i dont know why i just remembered when i had problems with my ipw2200 i read it somewhere in these forums. |
Because it will try to load firmware too soon, when no userspace agent is there to serve the request.
| tane_stelzer wrote: | Well i dont like the kernel ones i prefer to emerge them via portage that just always worked for me, the kernel just always caused trouble,
you guys might want to try that incase you are using the kernel onces. |
You're likely to get troubles emerging ieee80211 and ipw2200 against later kernels, look at the number of posts about this in the forums. 2.6.15 drivers are enough up to date, unlike 2.6.14 that included ipw2200 1.0.
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| tane_stelzer wrote: | | Btw somebody mentioned 2.6.16-r2 is that out already, i think might be just a typo. |
No typo at all. 2.6.16-rc2 is out from 3 days, look at www.kernel.org
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: Please... I killed the internet |
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I have a similar setup, however, I am stuck in a similar place. Here is my configuration:
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[ebuild R ] net-wireless/ipw2200-1.0.10 USE="-debug -radiotap"
[ebuild R ] net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware-2.4
[ebuild R ] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.11 USE="-debug"
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[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4
[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/suspend2-sources-2.6.15-r5
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after mod probeing, dmesg shows the same error as above:
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Feb 8 17:44:15 albatross ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
Feb 8 17:44:15 albatross ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.11
Feb 8 17:44:15 albatross ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Feb 8 17:44:15 albatross ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.10
Feb 8 17:44:15 albatross ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
Feb 8 17:44:15 albatross ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb 8 17:44:15 albatross ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Feb 8 17:44:25 albatross ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
Feb 8 17:44:25 albatross ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
Feb 8 17:44:25 albatross ipw2200: failed to register network device
Feb 8 17:44:25 albatross ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:02.0 disabled
Feb 8 17:44:25 albatross ipw2200: probe of 0000:04:02.0 failed with error -5
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obviously after the attempted modprobe, iwconfig shows nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm not completely gentoo illiterate, and I have a friend who is a pseudo-guru. His recommendation was to simply reinstall gentoo. Anyone have a different one?
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| Code: | * sys-fs/udev
Latest version available: 081-r1
Latest version installed: 081-r1
Size of downloaded files: 189 kB
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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Same problem here with 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 . Its really strange .
1. Error on boot ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
2. rmmod ipw2200
3. modprobe ipw2200 -> ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
4. emerge udev
5. rmmod ipw2200
6. modprobe ipw2200 -> it works
Have tried with udev 0.79 , 0.81 , 0.84 . Same behaviour with all versions. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: Old kernel worked. |
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Well, it seemed moving back to an older kernel works. I guess I'll have have to wait a while before upgrading.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: UDEV ipw2200 issue |
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I have found it no to be an issue with the newer kernels but with the newer udev. I rolled back to udev 058 and havent upgraded since because of that.
my current kernel version is 2.6.15r1 |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Hey, i had the exact same problem as you guys, and i found this solution somewhere else on these forums.
Check out this blog... http://www.openthought.org/blosxom.cgi/2006/02/13#firmware_and_udev
and if you dont want to read it, here's what he says to do:
| Quote: | just create the file '/etc/udev/rules.d/999-firmware.rules', and add the following line in it:
| Code: | | ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd" |
Then rmmod ipw2200 and the ieee80211* modules, insmod ipw2200, and you should be good to go. |
You don't have to do the firmware_helper thing he has in there, by the way.
Well hope this helps, i'm so relieved that wireless finally works! |
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solved the same problem in an extreme weird way.
previously my ipw2200 works very well,then someday i got the firmware load error.
yes, i have tried all of the above methods and no work.
after hundreds of time rebooting and recompiling kernel,no luck. then i thought maybe a kernel update can help,so i update to Nitro 2.6.14,use a in kernel ipw driver,still got the same error. 
finally i think i should reboot to windows,why? because i had an idea that something will happen 
and as i said, strange thing happen
the ipw2200 just works as before when i reboot to linux from windows.
so, should i say it's another method to get the firmware work 
my config: Gentoo_Jackass2006.0 on Insprion6000
using the latest udev and baselayout. no udev rules create necessary,no udev source patch needed. |
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