FS#2984 - ipw2200 firmware not loaded after udev upgrade

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kevin edmonds (eddy) - Thursday, 21 July 2005, 18:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

hi, after upgrading udev 060-5 to udev 062-1, the firmware for the ipw2200 1.0.6-1 package cannot be loaded anymore. This error message is displayed in kernel.log:

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Jul 20 17:49:24 pingu ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
Jul 20 17:49:24 pingu ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
Jul 20 17:49:24 pingu ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Jul 20 17:49:24 pingu ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Jul 20 17:49:25 pingu ipw2200: ipw-2.3-bss.fw load failed: Reason -2
Jul 20 17:49:25 pingu ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
Jul 20 17:49:25 pingu ipw2200: failed to register network device
Jul 20 17:49:25 pingu ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5
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After reinstalling my older udev package the firmware is loaded without any problem again.
The diagnosis of my problem has been made in the arch forum:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=13957
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 23 July 2005, 08:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Kevin edmonds (eddy) - Friday, 22 July 2005, 19:34 GMT
I have indentified the reason for this problem. I was using devfs and udev. I have now stoped using devfs and now the firmware can load even with the new udev package.

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