Re: ipw2200: loading firmware failed

[Guillaume <silencer@free-4ever.net>]

Arne Lange a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> i have a problem with my wlan card (ipw2200).
> I'm running debian stable with a 2.6.16-2-686 kernel from backports.org.
> The card worked in this environment for some time, but now it seems i
> broke something. I don't know what.
>
> The module is loaded (ipw2200, ieee80211 and firmware_class), but in the
> syslog i found, that the firmware loading failed (ipw-2.4-boot.fw load
> failed: Reason -2). The firmware 2.4 is in the directories listed in
> /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent. After some search at google, i tried "echo
> 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout" before modprobe, without success.
>
> It seems to me that the "firmware.agent" wasn't started at all.
>
> Are there any hints?
>
> TIA,
> Arne

Hi

Just try to put your firmware in: "/lib/firmware" folder.

It works for me with ipw2200 and bcm43xx

Regards
Guillaume


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