Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37743 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757357Ab0F3WWr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:22:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Problem with firmware load on ipw2200 From: Dan Williams To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Larry Finger , wireless In-Reply-To: <20100629134930.GC5296@tuxdriver.com> References: <4C29F711.1090306@lwfinger.net> <20100629134930.GC5296@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:23:29 -0700 Message-ID: <1277936609.25199.11.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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