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From: Marco <listworks@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:40:12
Message-Id: 93d30e950906290239w4d05f354k49e2f9e394f63f17@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Monday 29 June 2009 11:29:22 Marco wrote:
3 >> Hi all,
4 >>
5 >> after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world,
6 >> etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore.
7 >>
8 >> In the boot messagesI have:
9 >> [...]
10 >>  * Starting wlan0
11 >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
12 >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
13 >>  *   Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...
14 >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
15 >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
16 >> Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
17 >> [ ok ] *   Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ...
18 >> [ ok ] *     Backgrounding ...
19 >> [...]
20 >>
21 >> And dmesg shows:
22 >> [...]
23 >> iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
24 >> iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was
25 >> 0x100102, writing 0x100106)
26 >> firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
27 >> iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
28 >> iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
29 >
30 > Did you install the microcode?
31
32 emerge -pv net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode
33
34 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
35
36 Calculating dependencies... done!
37 [ebuild R ] net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-15.32.2.9 66 kB
38
39 Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 66 kB
40
41 Yes, it seems to be installed.
42
43 --
44 Regards,
45 Marco

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