Fedora Core 4 Test Update: udev-071-0.FC4.1

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:06:16PM +0100, Kristoffer Gleditsch wrote:
 > Hi! 
 > 
 > Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > > It should/must not break older kernels... please test this, if you can!
 > 
 > Hum, it seems to break the ipw2200 driver.  With the new udev package
 > the driver initialization fails with the following messages in the
 > log:
 > 
 > Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
 > Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
 > Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
 > Jan 26 20:15:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
 > Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
 > Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
 > Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
 > Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish firmware_helper[3125]: Loading of /lib/firmware/ipw-2.4-boot.fw for ipw2200 driver failed: No such file or directory
 > Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:03.0 disabled
 > Jan 26 20:16:09 sawfish kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5

Looks like this matches ... http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/#issues
The FC4 kernel has a patch to bump up that timeout already though.

Can you try this.. (as root)

rmmod ipw2200
echo 100 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
modprobe ipw2200

and see if it does the same thing ?

		Dave