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From: Marco <listworks@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:29:25
Message-Id: 93d30e950906290229t42a7bdd4nbb8663939e05cc7@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi all,
2
3 after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world,
4 etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore.
5
6 In the boot messagesI have:
7 [...]
8 * Starting wlan0
9 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
10 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
11 * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...
12 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
13 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
14 Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
15 [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ...
16 [ ok ] * Backgrounding ...
17 [...]
18
19 And dmesg shows:
20 [...]
21 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
22 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was
23 0x100102, writing 0x100106)
24 firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
25 iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
26 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
27 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
28 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
29 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was
30 0x100102, writing 0x100106)
31 firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
32 iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
33 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
34 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
35 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
36 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was
37 0x100102, writing 0x100106)
38 firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
39 iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
40 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
41 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
42 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
43 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was
44 0x100102, writing 0x100106)
45 firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
46 iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
47 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
48 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
49 [...]
50
51 Some research on 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory' showed that
52 this is often caused by missing firmware for the wireless card. But
53 net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode is installed on my system.
54
55 Any hints on how to fix?
56
57 Thanks!
58
59 --
60 Regards,
61 Marco

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>