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tony11235
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 Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: [solved] ipw3945-firmware |
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I'm currently running kernel 2.6.19-r5, and I'm trying to get my intel pro wireless 3945 to work. I've emerge ipw3945, ipw3945d, ipw3945-ucode. I've started ipw3945d, but its not recognizing my card, or my card is not appearing. Is there supposed to be a ipw3945-firmware package in portage? There's not in my case. And I have the right kernel configuration. Any ideas?
BTW I get the following:
/etc/init.d/ipw3945d restart
* Stopping ipw3945d ... [ ok ]
* Starting ipw3945d ...
chown: cannot access `/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00*/cmd': No such file or directory [ ok ]
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| ipw3945-ucode is the firmware... I am having the same problem. Print out the relevent portion of 'dmesg' it tells me it loaded the module but for everyone else it's working it also prints out a few more lines like "detected ABG connection" or something like that which I'm not getting. |
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tony11235
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Here is the relevant portion of my dmesg
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ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
ipw3945: ipw3945.ucode load failed: Reason -2
ipw3945: Could not read microcode: -2
ipw3945: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -2
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pH
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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 I haven't even gotten my to get that far yet |
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tony11235
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| I would think that "ipw3945.ucode load failed: Reason -2" would indicate that the firmware isn't installed. But then ipw3945 IS the firmware, so I'm still clueless. Going with ndiswrapper til this is solved. |
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tony11235
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OK so I did a reinstall, new kernel. Now when after I've install ipw3945*, modprobe ipw3945 gives me
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ERROR: Unable to create pid file '/var/run/ipw3945d/ipw3945d'
FATAL: Error running install command for ipw3945
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This sucks. |
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sdfg
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Have a look here. Has worked for most of us. |
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tony11235
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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I tried the procedure, but I'm still getting the same results. Right now all I care about is getting my card to be recognized.
I have the following
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ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
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But yet it doesn't appear in after iwconfig. ipw3945d won't even start. Complains as always.[/quote] |
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sdfg
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| tony11235 wrote: | I tried the procedure, but I'm still getting the same results. Right now all I care about is getting my card to be recognized.
I have the following
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ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.0dmpr
ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
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But yet it doesn't appear in after iwconfig. ipw3945d won't even start. Complains as always. |
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Hmm. Did you follow it exactly? Even the kernel version? Because from what I can see, that procedure covers every aspect of the card, hardware upwards. |
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tony11235
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Is 2.6.19-r5 not enough? It absolutely HAS to be 2.6.20? |
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sdfg
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| tony11235 wrote: | | Is 2.6.19-r5 not enough? It absolutely HAS to be 2.6.20? |
I don't know. All I know is that I did exactly what was down there, even upgrading from 2.6.19-r2, and it works. |
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tony11235
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| All I know is have ieee211 built in. And I tried the steps you posted. And I'm having these weird results. I didn't have coldplug installed in the beginning, I have udev 104-r11. It has to be something simple. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I have the same issue and have tried everything. The firmware is not loading. Tried first on 2.6.19 then on 2.6.20. |
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Spiderboy
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| tony11235 wrote: | OK so I did a reinstall, new kernel. Now when after I've install ipw3945*, modprobe ipw3945 gives me
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ERROR: Unable to create pid file '/var/run/ipw3945d/ipw3945d'
FATAL: Error running install command for ipw3945
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I had a problem around Christmas with permissions which I tracked down by running ipw3945d manually under strace. It might be worth giving that a go and checking your permissions on the pid dir. I can't think of the number of times strace has got me out of trouble. |
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tony11235
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I used strace on ipw3945d.
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execve("/sbin/ipw3945d", ["ipw3945d"], [/* 47 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x805b000
fcntl64(0, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(1, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(2, F_GETFD) = 0
access("/etc/suid-debug", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f86000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=51348, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 51348, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f79000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0RY\1\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1221408, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1185212, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e57000
mmap2(0xb7f73000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x11c) = 0xb7f73000
mmap2(0xb7f76000, 9660, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f76000
close(3) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e56000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7e566b0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0xb7f73000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb7fa2000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0xb7f79000, 51348) = 0
brk(0) = 0x805b000
brk(0x807e000) = 0x807e000
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f85000
write(1, "ipw3945d - regulatory daemon\n", 29) = 29
write(1, "Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Co"..., 64) = 64
write(1, "version: 1.7.22\n", 16) = 16
open("/var/run/ipw3945d.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
getcwd("/root", 4096) = 6
open("/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
chdir("/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945") = 0
getdents(3, /* 8 entries */, 4096) = 156
stat64("debug_level", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("new_id", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0200, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("bind", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0200, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("unbind", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0200, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("module", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
chdir("module") = 0
stat64("cmd", 0xbfb450ac) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
chdir("/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945") = 0
stat64("0000:03:00.0", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
chdir("0000:03:00.0") = 0
stat64("cmd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
geteuid32() = 105
close(3) = 0
chdir("/root") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
write(1, "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Netwo"..., 56) = 56
write(1, " /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/00"..., 43) = 43
access("/var/run", W_OK) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e566f8) = 21725
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
write(1, "Daemon launched as pid 21725. E"..., 40) = 40
exit_group(0) = ?
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This "chdir("/root") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)" is about the only thing that looks odd. Any suggestions? |
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Spiderboy
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| tony11235 wrote: | I used strace on ipw3945d.
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clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e566f8) = 21725
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
write(1, "Daemon launched as pid 21725. E"..., 40) = 40
exit_group(0) = ?
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This "chdir("/root") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)" is about the only thing that looks odd. Any suggestions? |
You'll need to pass the --foreground parameter to ipw3945d so it doesn't fork off into the background or tell strace to follow the forked processes with the -f parameter. If it's exiting prematurely then all the action is going to be happening in the daemonised process. |
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tony11235
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OK this is what I have.[/quote]
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execve("/sbin/ipw3945d", [, ...], [/* 34 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x805b000
fcntl64(0, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(1, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl64(2, F_GETFD) = 0
access("/etc/suid-debug", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fb8000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=52212, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 52212, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7fab000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, ""..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1221408, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1185212, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e89000
mmap2(0xb7fa5000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x11c) = 0xb7fa5000
mmap2(0xb7fa8000, 9660, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fa8000
close(3) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e88000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7e886b0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0xb7fa5000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0xb7fd4000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0xb7fab000, 52212) = 0
brk(0) = 0x805b000
brk(0x807e000) = 0x807e000
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fb7000
write(1, ""..., 29ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
) = 29
write(1, ""..., 64Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
) = 64
write(1, ""..., 16version: 1.7.22
) = 16
open("/var/run/ipw3945d.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
getcwd("/root", 4096) = 6
open("/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
chdir("/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945") = 0
getdents(3, /* 8 entries */, 4096) = 156
stat64("debug_level", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("new_id", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0200, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("bind", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0200, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("unbind", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0200, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("module", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
chdir("module") = 0
stat64("cmd", 0xbfc3fb7c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
chdir("/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945") = 0
stat64("0000:03:00.0", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
chdir("0000:03:00.0") = 0
stat64("cmd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
geteuid32() = 105
close(3) = 0
chdir("/root") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
write(1, ""..., 56Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection found at:
) = 56
write(1, ""..., 43 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/0000:03:00.0
) = 43
access("/var/run", W_OK) = 0
open("/var/run/ipw3945d.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0600) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
time(NULL) = 1172249637
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1649, ...}) = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1649, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fb6000
read(3, ""..., 4096) = 1649
close(3) = 0
munmap(0xb7fb6000, 4096) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1649, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1649, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1649, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1649, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1649, ...}) = 0
write(2, ""..., 862007-02-23 11:53:57: ERROR: Could not open '/var/run/ipw3945d.pid': Permission denied
) = 86
unlink("/var/run/ipw3945d.pid") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
exit_group(-13) = ?
Process 12887 detached
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject: Same Problem |
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Hy guys...
I have the same problem as described above... I first tried to install ipw3945, ipw3945d and ipw3945-ucode with 2.6.19-r5 sources (iee80211 stack in the kernel) and ended up with the same problem as described at the top... I then followed the guide that was postet here that treats the problem with the 2.6.20 sources... Unfortunatly I had no luck in solving the problem.
I hope that we can find a workaround here...
thx for your efforts...
Greetz, ->M_GT1 |
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Morpheus_GT1
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ok, strange things are goin' on... Yesterday i wasted my gentoo installation in trying to get the wireless card to work... Luck for me it was my new notebook and nothing but the bare system on it... So I did a reinstall from scratch, and what should I say, this is nearly Windows Style... Reinstall, and erverything works... Strange, but true...
I'm using the 2.6.19-r5 kernel-sources (with built in ieee80211 Stack), udev 104-r11, ipw3945-1.2.0, ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2 and ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4...
ok so now I'm hedin' for the rest of my hardware to works... |
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Spiderboy
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| Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| tony11235 wrote: | | OK this is what I have. |
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write(2, ""..., 862007-02-23 11:53:57: ERROR: Could not open '/var/run/ipw3945d.pid': Permission denied
) = 86
unlink("/var/run/ipw3945d.pid") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
exit_group(-13) = ?
Process 12887 detached
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I'd forgotten that when the ipw3945d init script runs it passes a "--pidfile /var/run/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.pid" to the deamon. This run here shows that it can't write to "/var/run/", which makes sense. I just tried reemerging ipw3945d and the problem came back. If I then did a "chmod g+w /var/run/ipw3945d" the problem went away again. You might want to try that. |
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tony11235
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| Ok finally. That worked. |
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