Re: wireless card no longer appears after dist-upgrade

[Arnaud Feltz <linux.debutant@gmail.com>]

Hello,

In fact the version of the firmware has no importance with the kernel 
version but with the IPW2200 version !
You have the v1.1 of ipw then you must download the latest firmware and 
copy all .fw files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware ( previously delete all 
file in this directory )

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Colin Cotter a écrit :
> 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