Re: ipw2200 error 5

(Resend, as the original posting got eaten by the MLM.)

Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 04:53 schrieb Zhu Yi:
> Weird. If you use the 2.4 FW, there should be an error in dmesg saying
> "request_firmware failed: Reason -2". Because 3.0 firmware uses a
> different firmware filename with 2.4. Did you change the filename
> yourself?

No, I didn't. The filenames in the archives I downloaded are completely 
different, that's correct:

fw-2.4/:
insgesamt 576
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter   6472 2005-08-11 15:06 ipw-2.4-boot.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter 168344 2005-08-11 15:06 ipw-2.4-bss.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter  16334 2005-08-11 15:06 ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter 162884 2005-08-11 15:06 ipw-2.4-ibss.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter  16312 2005-08-11 15:06 ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter 168344 2005-08-11 15:06 ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter  16344 2005-08-11 15:06 
ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw
-rwx------ 1 gunter gunter  12007 2005-08-11 14:33 LICENSE

ipw2200-fw-3.0/:
insgesamt 580
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter 191142 2006-03-07 20:49 ipw2200-bss.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter 185660 2006-03-07 20:49 ipw2200-ibss.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter 187836 2006-03-07 20:49 ipw2200-sniffer.fw
-rw------- 1 gunter gunter  12007 2006-03-07 20:49 LICENSE.ipw2200-fw

I just placed the files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware , where Debian 
expects them, and later deleted them and replaced them by the correct 
version.

Greetings,

  Gunter


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