From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752711AbXCOJYe (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:24:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752776AbXCOJYe (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:24:34 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:48945 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752711AbXCOJYd (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:24:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; b=lbtcVAbwkPMoWQzq6CoeoP3EaHaHPwA6wtAAS7AdB0SSp+mw7kI3IHJfVwZPbB1ORe9vpOdWvngPTLGlN3/JYxyWBm0uQH9vtEC6/3KZM6UWo/uZSdj4CfwyL1UcRRhA7DDvDXylwhtuwfq72PBCcR9uQ8HbrVcfenXS0Xe3xDg= Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:22:41 +0000 From: Frederik Deweerdt To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: ipw2200: can't load firmware (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1) Message-ID: <20070315092241.GA16781@slug> References: <20070307201839.6f45735b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070309114043.GE12727@slug> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070309114043.GE12727@slug> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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