FS#4326 - Kernel 2.6.16.1-2 breaks ipw2200
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I upgraded to the latest kernel from testing this morning
(3/31) and upon reboot I have no wireless extensions. Doing
a modprobe ipw2200 does not give an error but likewise
iwconfig shows no wireless extensions.
[root@archer ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. Interestingly, lsmod shows both ipw2200 and ieee80211: [root@archer ~]# lsmod | grep ieee ieee80211 32968 1 ipw2200 ieee80211_crypt 5120 1 ieee80211 [root@archer ~]# lsmod | grep ipw2200 ipw2200 100284 0 ieee80211 32968 1 ipw2200 Kernel26 is my only package from testing. |
This task depends upon
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.1.1
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:04:02.0 failed with error -