ipw2200: randomly fails to load firmware....

[Tom London]

Running rawhide, targeted/enforcing:

Consecutive reboots either successfully loads the ipw2200 firwmware,
or reports 'file not found'.

I've bz'ed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174589

tom

Here is output from /var/log/messages for a successful boot:
Nov 29 14:15:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211: 802.11
data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
Nov 29 14:15:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005
Intel Corporation <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
Nov 29 14:15:18 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
Nov 29 14:15:18 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005
Intel Corporation
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A]
-> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
2200BG Network Connection
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins
<bcollins at debian.org>
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:07.0
(0000 -> 0002)
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF]
enabled at IRQ 11
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A]
-> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1
(PCI): IRQ=[11]  MMIO=[fce06000-fce067ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver -
version 6.1.16-k2-NAPI
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation.
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE]
enabled at IRQ 11
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A]
-> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Nov 29 14:15:19 localhost kernel: e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R)
PRO/1000 Network Connection


Here is /var/log/messages for an unsuccessful load of ipw2200 firmware:
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ieee80211: 802.11
data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005
Intel Corporation <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005
Intel Corporation
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A]
-> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
2200BG Network Connection
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load
failed: Reason -2
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device
0000:02:05.0 disabled
Nov 30 06:33:30 localhost kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:05.0
failed with error -5
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Tom London