Bugzilla – Bug 113446
ipw-firmware won't load
Last modified: 2005-08-27 18:08:23 UTC
I have installed Suse 10.0 beta3 and download rhe RPM for the ipw firmware from there : ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-Beta3-Extra/kernel-modules+firmware/CD1/suse/noarch/ My ipw2200 wifi card isn't recognized by iwconfig and there is the dmesg output : ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:08.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 233 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: ipw-2.3-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE ipw2200: failed to register network device ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:08.0 disabled ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:08.0 failed with error -5 Noticed that for another bug I've reported (not solved at the moment and it's hard to try finding but in beta3 without network ;o)), I have disabled yenta_socket else my laptop freeze. There is a problem with the PCMCIA handling. But I don't think this is related to this problem. On SuSE 9.3, I had the WIFI correctly working directly and I think it was ok in SuSE 10.0 beta1 with the RPM of the firmware for this beta. It seems to be a known problem, I've tried this : echo 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout && rmmod ipw2200 && modprobe ipw2200 as suggested on a webpage, but it doesn't worked. It just increase the time before the error message is sent to dmesg after the modprobe. I've seen that it could work if I disable udev. I'll try but I don't think this is the perfect solution if SuSE use udev.
Here is an URL where the issue is mentionned. http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#issues You can find in another distro (I've seen it for Debian too). A Google request with : ipw2200 "failed with" give some results.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112915 ***