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

[Anshuman Aggarwal]

I've put the answers below

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> 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.
>   
Compiled version 2.6.22.1 with drivers as modules...all other modules 
including tg3 (eth0) work...but ipw2200 still gives the same error. The 
IPW2200 version that came with this kernel is IPW 1.2.0...hence firmware 
IPW2200-Firmware-3.0
>> 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.
>   
cat /Programs/Udev/Current/Resources/Revision
r4

ll /Programs/Udev
total 7
drwxr-xr-x   4 boss root  120 2007-07-08 11:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 273 boss root 7280 2007-08-18 21:27 ..
drwxr-xr-x   9 boss root  224 2007-07-08 11:29 110
lrwxrwxrwx   1 boss root    3 2007-07-08 11:29 Current -> 110
drwxr-xr-x   4 boss root  128 2007-06-25 03:37 Settings
>> 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.
>   
eth1 would have been my network interface (based on how modprobe.conf 
was set) alias eth1 ipw2200. It is now built as a module but the same 
firmware loading error...
I thought if iwconfig showed any card with wireless capability, it would 
mean that the firmware is getting loaded...

nothing is recognizing the ipw2200 card, with the module and without...

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again,
Anshuman