Problem loading firmware with Intel 2200 wifi card

NorthGoingZax · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 189

Hello,

I just moved and don't have wired internet anymore, so I bought myself an Intel Centrino 2200 pci-e wireless card. I couldn't get the driver built on my old 3.6.someting kernel, so I figured I'd use the gentoo install disk to boot in , and then chroot and etc etc.

Unfortunately the gentoo install disk with the 3.8.10 kernel isn't doing the trick.

Here are the errors:

Failed to load firmware chrunk!
Could not load the [0] uCode section
Failed to run INIT ucode: -110
Unable to initialize device.

Now, I did check /lib/firmware and the correct firmware is indeed there. What can I do to get teh firmware to load ?

aim nano · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 4:42 am Post subject:

try systemrescuecd (it's gentoo based and you can do a full install from it)

http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

you can also make a liveusb

wifi works off the bat in it

also: use the alternative kernel for newer hardware

also: there's a bug in the GRUB boot lines on the version i'm using (which is pretty new) where you need to change "isolinux" to "syslinux" (2 lines)
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NorthGoingZax · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 189

I downloaded system rescue CD but I can't get past the boot loader.
For eACH option I try I get

Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format.

Any more gentooish suggestions ?

aim nano · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:31 pm Post subject:

did you try where i mentioned

NorthGoingZax · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 189

Yes I did, that resulted in a file not found error

aim nano · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:15 am Post subject:

Did you try it regular? I think that bug only occurs if you're using the liveusb
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