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REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!
FS#2984 - ipw2200 firmware not loaded after udev upgrade
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Detailshi, 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:
... 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 ... 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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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.