Bug#297481: hotplug: Fails to load firmware for ipw2200 after upgrade

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

What's wrong? The user is running udev 0054 with udevsend as the
hotplug multiplexer, if /sbin/hotplug is restored then the firmware
loader works again.
(In the report he talks about hotplug, but we later verified that udev
was upgraded at the same time.)

----- Forwarded message from Simon Guest <simon@guests.plus.com> -----

Subject: Bug#297481: hotplug: Fails to load firmware for ipw2200 after upgrade
Reply-To: Simon Guest <simon@guests.plus.com>, 297481@bugs.debian.org
From: Simon Guest <simon@guests.plus.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Package: hotplug
Version: 0.0.20040329-17
Severity: normal

I've been using ipw2200 successfully with the previous hotplug
version, 0.0.20040329-16.  Following a dist-upgrade, my hotplug was
upgraded to 0.0.20040329-17, and after the next reboot, my ipw2200
wireless driver could no longer get its firmware loaded (via
hotplug).  Reverting to hotplug version 0.0.20040329-16 (and making no
other changes to my configuration) caused the problem to go away.

Lines logged in /var/log/kern.log as follows (for the broken case):

Feb 28 22:31:38 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
Feb 28 22:31:38 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
Feb 28 22:31:38 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Feb 28 22:31:38 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Feb 28 22:31:48 localhost kernel: ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
Feb 28 22:31:48 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
Feb 28 22:31:48 localhost kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
Feb 28 22:31:48 localhost kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:06.0 failed with error -5

Of course, it may be that the bug is in ipw2200 or somewhere else.
I've built ipw2200 from the debian package ipw2200-source, version
1.0.0-1, running on standard Debian kernel image 2.6.8-1-686.

For reference, when it works (using the previous hotplug), I get this
logged:

Feb 28 22:36:23 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
Feb 28 22:36:23 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
Feb 28 22:36:23 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Feb 28 22:36:23 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

[...]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages hotplug depends on:
ii  debconf                      1.4.46      Debian configuration management sy
ii  grep                         2.5.1.ds1-4 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii  module-init-tools            3.2-pre1-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.26-1.2  Linux module utilities
ii  procps                       1:3.2.5-1   /proc file system utilities

-- debconf information:
  hotplug/ignore_pci_class_display: true
  hotplug/net_agent_policy: hotplug
* hotplug/usb_keyboard:
  hotplug/static_module_list:
  hotplug/x11_usbmice_hack: false


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-- 
ciao,
Marco


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