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steamroller50
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 Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: IPW2100 Can't Load Firmware ipw2100-1.3.fw |
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Hi Everyone.
I'm running Gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 8600. I had my wireless network working great. About 1 week ago I did an emerge --sync and then a emerge --update --deep --newuse world. Ever since then, my wireless adpater won't load anymore.
I have ipw2100 1.1.2-r1 and ipw2100-firmware 1.3 emerged:
| Code: | * net-wireless/ipw2100
Latest version available: 1.1.2-r1
Latest version installed: 1.1.2-r1
Size of downloaded files: 96 kB
Homepage: http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net
Description: Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 3B miniPCI adapter
License: GPL-2
* net-wireless/ipw2100-firmware
Latest version available: 1.3
Latest version installed: 1.3
Size of downloaded files: 242 kB
Homepage: http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/
Description: Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 3B miniPCI adapter
License: ipw2100-fw |
When I run , I get the following message in /var/log/messages:
| Code: | Sep 9 16:02:23 giordi ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.1.2
Sep 9 16:02:23 giordi ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
Sep 9 16:02:23 giordi ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Sep 9 16:02:23 giordi ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
Sep 9 16:04:03 giordi ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed.
Sep 9 16:04:03 giordi ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
Sep 9 16:04:03 giordi ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
Sep 9 16:04:03 giordi ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
Sep 9 16:04:03 giordi ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
Sep 9 16:04:03 giordi ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
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I tried the following tip from ipw2100.sf.net and it didn't help:
| Code: | | echo 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout |
I have hotplug firmware enabled in my kernel. I'm running gentoo-sources 2.6.12-r9:
| Code: | * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
Latest version available: 2.6.12-r10
Latest version installed: 2.6.12-r9
Size of downloaded files: 36,910 kB
Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree
License: GPL-2
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Again, everything was working fine until I ran emerge --update --deep --newuse world. I ran this because I updated my use flags. Here's my /etc/make.conf file:
| Code: | # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="gtk gnome -qt -kde dvd alsa cdr acpi divx4linux pcmcia nvidia
bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts emacs emacs-w3 leim mule"
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My notebook is configured for dual boot and wireless still works when I boot Win XP, so I know the problem isn't that the wireless adapter is fried.
I'm completely stumped at this point. Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
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Khaine
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I am having the same problem. My problems began after I upgraded udev. |
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tomj44
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| I have the same problem I use kernel gentoo 2.6.12-r10 , ipw2100 1.1.2-r3, ipw2100 firmware 1.3 , udev 0.68, hotplug-20040923-r1 , baselayout-1.11.13-r1 and coldplug-20040920 who hang when I start. I have already try https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2414097.html?sid=0f066058ddd63dd287afa2c99905368c " I found a solution. The problem occurs because the package ipw2100-firmware extract the firmware file to /lib/firmware instead to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. After copy manually the need file to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware I can load the modul correct " but I have the same problem |
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tomj44
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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El Tazar
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Same issues with udev 0.68 (Haven't tried r1 yet, but I don't have time atm to mess around) so I've masked the packages for now in /etc/portage/package.mask:
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=sys-fs/udev-068
=sys-fs/udev-068-r1
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and reemerged udev so that it's at version 0.58 |
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tomj44
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| I have changed my ipw2100 by an ipw2200 and it works now |
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tomj44
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| downgrade to udev58 it's the answer |
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steamroller50
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:45 am Post subject: Downgrade worked, but... |
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Thanks for the help everyone. Downgrading to udev 058 sort of fixed the problem. The firmware seems to load properly now.
But...
Whenever the wireless card tries to power on I get a kernel panic. I have a Dell Inspiron 8600, so I can control the wireless power using Fn+F2. Have to hard reboot my system to recover (don't know of another way to recover from a kernel panic).
Still trying to figure out what's causing this latest problem. No luck yet. |
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tomj44
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| udev 070 is working also |
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