linux-kernel - ipw2200: can't load firmware (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1)

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:22:41 +0000
From:	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com
Subject: ipw2200: can't load firmware (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1)

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:40:43AM +0000, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:18:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - The wireless changes in here need a lot of testers, please.  It is major
> >   rework.
> [...]
> >   I was able to get ipw2200 working after some fumbling,
> Any details on the symptoms? I'm unable to boot rc3-mm2, and it hangs
> right after printing the ipw2200 driver message. I'll investigate that
> this week-end.
Sorry for the delay, I could give it a try today. It appears
that it doesn't hang, it just spends a lot of time in
ipw_init:pci_register_driver, due to a firmware loading failure

[   12.296637] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
[   12.322581] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kdmprq
[   12.348822] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   12.366936] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:03:03.0
[   12.376280] PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1d.1
[   12.385729] PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1e.3
[   12.395134] PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.2
[   12.404385] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[   72.391870] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
[   72.400563] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
[   72.408956] ipw2200: failed to register network device
[   72.417178] ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed with error -5

(Booted with acpi=off due to some framebuffer problems mangling the
console output, but the problem persists even without that kernel
parameter)

Regards,
Frederik
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