ipw2200 in 2.6.14er kernel

[someone12345]

Hi!

I don't get ipw22000 working, neither as module nor built-in. The hardware is actually detected:

Nov 13 13:02:19 notebook ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
Nov 13 13:02:19 notebook ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
Nov 13 13:02:19 notebook ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

But iwconfig doesn't find it. I unmerged ipw2200 and ieee80211 and re-emerged ipw2200-firmware, however:

Nov 13 13:02:19 notebook ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
Nov 13 13:02:19 notebook ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
Nov 13 13:02:19 notebook ipw2200: failed to register network device
Nov 13 13:02:19 notebook ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:07.0 failed with error -5

This may be the cause but what am I going to do to fix this?

Thanks!

[dsd]

was that log from when it was built in or modular?

if you built it in, it tries to load the firmware before it has mounted the root filesystem. please ensure you are posting logs from a modular build
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[someone12345]

Doesn't matter. Whether I build it into the kernel oder load it as a module I get the same log output

[dgaffuri]

Silly question (maybe), are you sure you have emerged the 2.2 firmware version and not a later one?
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[someone12345]

Well, anyway, this doesn't fix the problem. I emerged 2.2:

$ ls -l /lib/firmware/
total 376
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11880 Nov 13 16:52 ipw-2.2-LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6472 Nov 13 16:52 ipw-2.2-boot.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166960 Nov 13 16:52 ipw-2.2-bss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16334 Nov 13 16:52 ipw-2.2-bss_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161568 Nov 13 16:52 ipw-2.2-ibss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16312 Nov 13 16:52 ipw-2.2-ibss_ucode.fw

# cat /var/log/messages | grep ipw2200 |tail -7
tail: `-7' option is obsolete; use `-n 7' since this will be removed in the future
Nov 13 16:56:02 notebook ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
Nov 13 16:56:02 notebook ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
Nov 13 16:56:02 notebook ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Nov 13 16:56:12 notebook ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
Nov 13 16:56:12 notebook ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
Nov 13 16:56:12 notebook ipw2200: failed to register network device
Nov 13 16:56:12 notebook ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:07.0 failed with error -5

[dgaffuri]

Are you sure that ipw2200 was built as a module this time? Is firmware loading enabled in kernel?
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[dgaffuri]

That's OK. You may try this, but it's a problem generally shown by older kernel.

[someone12345]

[someone12345]

BTW 1) loading the modules takes some seconds (!) and 2) I'd really prefer to have it built-in...

[dgaffuri]

Some people have firmware related problems with udev 071[/code], but for me it's all OK. The only difference is that I have sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r1. There's been a firmware related fix in udev-072, you may want to try to upgrade (or downgrade to 058).

[someone12345]

Well, udev-058 is apprently not available anymore

[lacerto]

Have got precisely the same problem here..

[dgaffuri]

It worked for me with vanilla and Gentoo 2.6.14, but I use ipw2200 as a package because of old version in kernel (I need WPA at work). Of course If you want to try you have to disable ieee80211 and ipw2200 support in kernel. These are my versions

[someone12345]

Well, the individual packages worked for me as well (for udev-058...). But this is about 2.6.14-ipw2200.

[dgaffuri]

[jancici]

look in this thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-403995-highlight-ipw2200+firmware.html