[gobolinux-users] IPW2200 unable to load firmware; firmware package is installed

Anshuman Aggarwal anshuman at brillgene.com
Sun Aug 19 13:26:59 UTC 2007


On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:00:23 +0200, Anshuman Aggarwal 
<anshuman at brillgene.com> wrote:
>   
>> Jul  7 01:16:59 (none) kernel: [    1.436000] ipw2200: Detected Intel
>> PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
>> Jul  7 01:16:59 (none) kernel: [   11.437000] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw
>> request_firmware failed: Reason -2
>> Jul  7 01:16:59 (none) kernel: [   11.438000] ipw2200: Unable to load
>> firmware: -2
>> Jul  7 01:16:59 (none) kernel: [   11.439000] ipw2200: failed to
>> register network device
>>
>>
>> I have the IPW2200 firmware packaged installed
>> Any ideas on this?
>>
>>     
> What version of Udev do you have installed?
>
> What does 'grep -i firmware /System/Settings/udev/rules.d/*' give? If that
> doesn't return anything you might want to try 'grep -i firmware
> /Programs/Udev/Current/Resources/Defaults/Settings/udev/rules.d/*'.
>
>   
/System/Links/Libraries/firmware]grep -i firmware 
/System/Settings/udev/rules.d/*
/System/Settings/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:ACTION=="add", 
SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN+="/System/Links/Libraries/udev/firmware.sh"
/System/Settings/udev/rules.d/60-modprobe.rules:ACTION=="add", 
SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ENV{FIRMWARE}="*", \
/System/Settings/udev/rules.d/60-modprobe.rules:        
RUN+="/sbin/firmware_helper"

I get a lot of udev errors when I boot up not specific to the the 
wireless connection but I am not sure how to capture them. the kernel 
log does not have them and I am not sure how to capture the console log.



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