On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:41:44 +0200, Stefan Bauer wrote:
Dear users,
since i moved from 2.6.18 to 2.6.22 my wlan interface stopped working.
At boot-time my hotplug system (no udev is installed! - because this
is not wanted) detects the ipw2100 card and tries to load the ipw2100
module. this task is timing out (after the 60seconds in
/sys/class/firmware/timeout). there is no change if i increase this
timeout to 100secs or more.
the error message in the kernel-ringbuffer is:
ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed.
ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:02.0 disabled
ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5
The firmware is present in /lib/firmware as well as in
/usr/local/lib/firmware/
my wlan interface is ... attached to a ibm thinkpad t40:
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
Can you load the firmware_class module? The ipw2100 module seems to
depend on it now to load the firmware:
$ lsmod | grep ipw2100
ipw2100 117988 0
ieee80211 31432 1 ipw2100
firmware_class 9728 2 pcmcia,ipw2100
I am using Debian Sid, i386, kernel 2.6.22 compiled from Debian sources.
I have the exact same lspci output for my Intel wireless card and it
works without problems for me. I do use udev, though. (version 0.113-3)