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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:08:11 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
CC: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with firmware load on ipw2200
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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