Re: wireless card no longer appears after dist-upgrade

["Colin Cotter" <colinjcotter@gmail.com>]

I replaced SYSFS with ATTRS but I still get the same problem.

dmesg | grep ipw2200 says

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:01:0d.0 failed with error -5

I have firmware version 2.4, with kernel 2.6.18-3-686 which I think is correct?

best wishes

--Colin

On 12/22/06, Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 13:05:10 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> > Colin Cotter wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Its there already:
> > >
> > > # PCI device 8086:4220 (ipw2200)
> > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:f0:2e:4c:14",
> > > NAME="eth1"
> > >
> > > This suggests that the system can't find the device with the new kernel?
> > >
> > > --Colin
> >
> > Yes, this may be. Take a look at the output of dmesg or /var/log/dmesg
> > if something goes wrong with the initialization of the WLAN-card.
> > Since it uses the ipw2200 driver it needs a firmware with a version matching
> > the kernel driver version.
>
> Maybe the problem is related to this (from udev's NEWS.Debian.gz):
>
> udev (0.098-1) experimental; urgency=low
>
>   Starting with this release the rules files keys BUS, ID, SYSFS and DRIVER
>   have been deprecated. While rules using the old syntax will continue to
>   work, custom rules files using these keys should be updated.
>   For details please consult /usr/share/doc/udev/RELEASE-NOTES.gz .
>
>  -- Marco d'Itri  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:21:16 +0200
>
> It seems that SYSFS is now replaced by ATTRS; maybe your last upgrade
> removed the support for the legacy keys.
>
> --
> Regards,
>           Florian