ipw2100 + Debian etch + Firmware trouble + 2.6.22

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:41:44 +0200, Stefan Bauer wrote:
>
>> Dear users,
>>
>> since i moved from 2.6.18 to 2.6.22 my wlan interface stopped working.
>> At boot-time my hotplug system (no udev is installed! - because this
>> is not wanted) detects the ipw2100 card and tries to load the ipw2100
>> module. this task is timing out (after the 60seconds in
>> /sys/class/firmware/timeout). there is no change if i increase this
>> timeout to 100secs or more.
>>
>> the error message in the kernel-ringbuffer is:
>>
>> ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
>> ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed.
>> ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
>> ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
>> ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
>> ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
>> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
>> ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
>>
>>
>> The firmware is present in /lib/firmware as well as in
>> /usr/local/lib/firmware/
>>
>> my wlan interface is ... attached to a ibm thinkpad t40:
>>
>> 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
>>
>
> Can you load the firmware_class module? The ipw2100 module seems to
> depend on it now to load the firmware:
>
> $ lsmod | grep ipw2100
> ipw2100 117988 0
> ieee80211 31432 1 ipw2100
> firmware_class 9728 2 pcmcia,ipw2100
>
> I am using Debian Sid, i386, kernel 2.6.22 compiled from Debian sources.
> I have the exact same lspci output for my Intel wireless card and it
> works without problems for me. I do use udev, though. (version 0.113-3)
>
>
I might be wrong but I think that the precompiled kernel module for
ipw2200 an ipw3945 has not hit unstable as yet. The latest kernel module
available is for 2.6.21-2.

Can't check right (at work) now but a search for ipw2200 should give you
results. In this case the options remain to either install
linux-image-2.6.21-2 or compile the module for 2.6.22 from source.

Vibhav Sharma
Senior Developer
Drishti-soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

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