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

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:05:04 +0200, Anshuman Aggarwal <anshuman at brillgene.com> wrote:

> IPW2200 is not a module but compiled into the kernel for me? Could that
> be an issue? It shouldn't be...
>
I don't know. IIrc I had some issues with ipw2200 built-in. Anyway it's
easier to find the error if it's a module, as one can force messages by
loading and onloading it and find which version of ipw2200 you're using by
using modinfo. Do you know which version you're using? Which kernel are you
using? If it's an earlier kernel you might want to try IPW2200-firmware 2.4
which is for IPW 1.1.0 and earlier.

> Hmmm....the plot thickens but we may be close to an answere here...the
> modprobe rules file is here:
> There are quite a few 05, 10- files that are not the persistent ones but
> they were all distributed with the recipe...maybe the recipe is broken
> ...which version of udev are you on? I could go back to that and check....
>
I have Udev 110-r2, but I think I'm using the rules from -r4. Make sure you
have revision 4 of Udev 110 as well by looking in
/Programs/Udev/Current/Resources/Revision.

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 boss root  78 2007-03-10 21:03 60-modprobe.rules ->
> ../../../../Programs/Module-Init-Tools/Settings/udev/rules.d/60-modprobe.rules
>
> Also Module-Init-Tools is at 3.2.2...but the settings and the file
> distributed with the version is the same
>
I'm only at Module-Init-Tools 3.0 here and that doesn't come with that rules file.

> udevtest /class/net/eth1
[...]
> unable to open device '/class/net/eth1'
>
Well, that would mean that eth1 isn't your network interface, or that
it wasn't set up. Change eth1 to whichever card that 'iwconfig' says has
wireless capabilities.

As a final resort I'd recommend you to rebuild your kernel with ipw2200 as a module.
If you haven't removed the source directory for the kernel it'll go quite fast.

-- 
/Jonas

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