Re: ipw2200.ko insmod failed , please help !

I had the same problem. was fixed by installing udev instead of
hotplug. Bug in hotplug?

On 6/3/06, Shawn Q.Z. Tang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all :
>      my dmesg :
> ======================================
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.0
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
> ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> ipw2200: failed to register network device
> ipw2200: probe of 0000:01:07.0 failed with error -5
> =======================================
>
> I have already checked the follow steps
>         1. vi /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent
>         2. FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware
>         3. /lib/firmware # ls
>             LICENSE                   ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw
> ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
>             ipw-2.4-boot.fw           ipw-2.4-ibss.fw
> ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw
>             ipw-2.4-bss.fw            ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
>         4. i also put those .fw in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
>         5. The sysfs is mounted
>                  /sys # ls
>                 block     bus       class     devices   firmware  kernel
> module
>                 /sys/firmware # ls
>                 (nothing)
>                 /sys/class/firmware # ls
>                 timeout
>                 /sys/class/firmware # lsmod
>                 Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
>                 ipw2200 173464 0 - Live 0xbf00e000
>                 ieee80211 39795 1 ipw2200, Live 0xbf003000
>                 ieee80211_crypt 4800 2 ipw2200,ieee80211, Live 0xbf000000
>         6. And i don't really know what else i should check for ? And i
> don't know what would be the problem . Please help !
> Thank you .
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