From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with firmware load on ipw2200
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:23:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277936609.25199.11.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100629134930.GC5296@tuxdriver.com>
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 09:49 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:37:21AM -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?
>
> selinux?
Or udev; basically whatever firmware helper is registered with the
kernel for firmware request handling. Which these days I thought was
udev on most distros.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-30 22:22 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 [this message]
2010-06-30 5:46 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-07-02 16:08 ` Larry Finger
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