Bug#813300: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#813300: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: log spammed by 'firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode (-2)')
Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 network-manager
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 15:10 +0100, Ralf Neubauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > The iwlwifi only tries to load firmware when it is told to bring an
> > interface up. Something in userland keeps telling it to do that,
> > and
> > it keeps failing. You need to identify what that is and disable
> > it.
>
> this may be the case, but remember this was a default install and I
> didn't configure anything.
I'm sorry; I thought that a bug as silly as this couldn't be present in
a default install!
[...]
> So maybe the bug is in some service in the default install? Nothing
> told me 'we have detected a WLAN chip but keep retrying and nothing
> happens'. Which error code do clients get when the firmware didn't
> load?
Like it says in the log, -2 (ENOENT, File not found).
[...]
> I don't know where to reassign the 'retry continously in short
> intervals' part of the problem to. NetworkManager? Udev? Systemd?
> Some GUI program? Who can I ask how this works at all? How /can/ I
> reassign bugs in the Debian BTS, is this even possible?
Probably network-manager, so I'm reassigning your report to that
package with this message.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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