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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with firmware load on ipw2200
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:46:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277876773.2536.5.camel@ct> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C29F711.1090306@lwfinger.net>

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 08:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
> stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
> directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
> present with the correct permissions.
> 
> What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?

Older versions of compat-wireless had a race condition in the firmware
code that could cause that.  From the log of the compat repository:

commit 524449c0184d44773d4947db8cd3bfd98a0a215f
Author: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 22 16:54:02 2010 +0300

    compat: fix uevent_suppress on 2.6.29 or older kernels
    
    Missing uevent_suppress is causing two uevents instead of one, which is
    confusing udev and sometimes causing firmware load to fail due to race
    condition, so let's add it.
    
    Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 13:37 Problem with firmware load on ipw2200 Larry Finger
2010-06-29 13:49 ` John W. Linville
2010-06-30 22:23   ` Dan Williams
2010-06-30  5:46 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2010-07-02 16:08   ` Larry Finger

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