Fedora Core 4 Test Update: udev-071-0.FC4.1

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 23:06 +0100, Kristoffer Gleditsch wrote:
> Hi! 
> 
> Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > It should/must not break older kernels... please test this, if you can!
> 
> Hum, it seems to break the ipw2200 driver.  With the new udev package
> the driver initialization fails with the following messages in the
> log:
> 
> Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
> Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
> Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
> Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
> Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish firmware_helper[3125]: Loading of /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-boot.fw for ipw2200 driver failed: No such file or directory
> Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:03.0 disabled
> Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
> 
> Not sure why it complains about "no such file or directory", because
> /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-boot.fw seems to exist.  WLAN stopped working
> after the upgrade, and started working again when I downgraded (only)
> the udev package to udev-058-1.0.FC4.1.
> 
> Kernel is 2.6.15-1.1824_FC4, the firmware files come from the
> ipw2200-firmware-2.4-0.lvn.1.4 package.  The hardware is a Dell
> Latitude X1.

I'm seeing the same thing on a Dell Inspiron too.  I've installed the
firmware from the tarball, but the interface works fine in my rawhide
install.


Rodd
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