Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore

[Stroller]

On 29 Jun 2009, at 10:39, Marco wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
> > wrote:
>> On Monday 29 June 2009 11:29:22 Marco wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world,
>>> etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore.
>>>
>>> In the boot messagesI have:
>>> [...]
>>>  * Starting wlan0
>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>>>  *   Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...
>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>>> Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
>>> [ ok ] *   Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ...
>>> [ ok ] *     Backgrounding ...
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> And dmesg shows:
>>> [...]
>>> iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>>> iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was
>>> 0x100102, writing 0x100106)
>>> firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
>>> iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
>>> iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
>>
>> Did you install the microcode?
>
> emerge -pv net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-15.32.2.9  66 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 66 kB
>
> Yes, it seems to be installed.


You may need to REinstall it.

I would guess the installer might put the firmware in /lib/modules/ 
`uname -r`/something

If you change the kernel version, the `uname -r` path changes.

Stroller.