I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
present with the correct permissions.
What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?
Thanks,
Larry
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 08:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
> stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
> directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
> present with the correct permissions.
>
> What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?
Older versions of compat-wireless had a race condition in the firmware
code that could cause that. From the log of the compat repository:
commit 524449c0184d44773d4947db8cd3bfd98a0a215f
Author: Grazvydas Ignotas <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Apr 22 16:54:02 2010 +0300
compat: fix uevent_suppress on 2.6.29 or older kernels
Missing uevent_suppress is causing two uevents instead of one, which is
confusing udev and sometimes causing firmware load to fail due to race
condition, so let's add it.
Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <[email protected]>
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:37:21AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
> stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
> directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
> present with the correct permissions.
>
> What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?
selinux?
John
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On 06/30/2010 12:46 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 08:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
>> stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
>> directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
>> present with the correct permissions.
>>
>> What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?
>
> Older versions of compat-wireless had a race condition in the firmware
> code that could cause that. From the log of the compat repository:
Thanks to all that responded. The problem turned out to be a missing
package that contained the compat-wireless scripts. The device is now
running - another satisfied "customer" that just converted his wife from
Windows to Linux. We get em one box at a time.
Larry
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 09:49 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:37:21AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
> > stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
> > directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
> > present with the correct permissions.
> >
> > What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?
>
> selinux?
Or udev; basically whatever firmware helper is registered with the
kernel for firmware request handling. Which these days I thought was
udev on most distros.
Dan