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On 2013-12-19 09:47, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote: |
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> Hi Florian, |
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Hi |
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> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 09:08 +0100, Florian HEGRON wrote: |
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> I found the line !! |
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> I had to enable wireless extension option on Network Support -> |
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> Wireless |
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> So I enable my card support, and I reboot (I already emerge |
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> ipw2200-firmware). |
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> #dmesg | grep 2200 |
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> [ 1.180583] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, |
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> 1.2.2k |
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> [ 1.180643] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation |
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> [ 1.182617] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network |
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> Connection |
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> [ 61.408070] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason |
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> -2 |
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> This means that driver can not find ipw2200-bss.fw file (probably |
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> part of sys-firmware/ipw2200-firmware) to load it to wireless card |
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> RAM chip. Ensure that you have that file, usually it is localed |
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> in /lib/firmware. |
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This file is present, I checked. |
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> [ 61.409941] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2 |
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> [ 61.411877] ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:04.0 failed with error -5 |
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> It's not explicit for me. -2, -5, Where are errors descriptions ? |
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> Anybody can explain to me the firmware goal ? |
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> For me a firmware is a internal software of a device. So I don't really |
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> understand. |
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> You can look at wireless card as CPU with just RAM (there are |
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> some other chips of course), so firmware is code which have to be |
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> executed by this specialized CPU in order to control RF stuff. And |
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> because code is not saved to non-volatile storage it have to be loaded |
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> to RAM every time after card is powered up. Driver itself "just" |
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> ensure proper communication between networking stack and CPU on |
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> wireless card. |
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> Regards, |
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> Ivan |
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Very good explain ! Thank you ! |
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I don't understand the error because I have the firmware. |
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Thank you for help. |
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