Bug 138406

Have you tried /lib/firmware?  That is the new standard location
chosen by the upstream hotplug project.

it works with /lib/firmware thanks.

My wireless has stopped working after update (with up2date) in
November, 20, 2004.  I have "ipw2200_boot.fw load failed" at
/var/log/messages
I have firmwares at /lib/firmware, /etc/firmware/ and
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
I have udev-039-10.FC3.2

Otto: which kernel do you use?

At the moment of the problem the kernel was 2.6.9-1.667.
Yesterday I installed kernel 2.6.9-1.678_FC3 to see if the problem
happens on it.
Now I have 2 kernels in my machine and the problem occurs in both.

could you try udev-039-10.FC3.2, which should also be available in the
updates?

I'm using it (see Additional Comment #3 above)

$ rpm -q udev
udev-039-10.FC3.2

doh...

could you try the version from the development tree?
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/

I made a upgrade to kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and the message
"ipw2200_boot.fw load failed" didn't appear anymore at
/var/log/messages, but the wireless didn't work and past +/- 2 hour
after boot I got the error messages below at /var/log/messages.
Then I made the suggested upgrade to udev-042-1 and got the same
results (no "ipw2200_boot.fw load failed" message, wireless not
working and error messages below past +/- 2 hours after boot)

ERROR MESSAGES:
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: Fatal error
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: Start IPW Error Log Dump:
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: ERROR_DINOSTATUS_ERROR
-1499879535 0x0001c2ac  0x00008af8  0x00000104  0x03806f3c  0x00000041
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS
-1499879531 0x00027af0  0x00027c70  0x01540001  0x00000000  0x00000000
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS
-1499879528 0x00028400  0x000287f0  0x00540001  0x00000000  0x00000001
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS
-1499879524 0x00028000  0x000281e0  0x00540000  0x9c6a4200  0x00000002
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: ERROR_DMA_STATUS
-1499879520 0x00408000  0x00408000  0x30408200  0x00000082  0x00000003
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: Start IPW Event Log Dump:
Nov 25 11:00:35 n6320dl36 kernel: ipw2200: -1499880599  0x00000438      27
etc, etc,...

No more comments?

Hi guys!

Otto, the ipw2200 driver is not in fedora core ATM. Where did you get
it? BTW it works for me with this RPMS:

http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/REPO.lvn/3/wlan/RPMS/ipw2200-firmware-2.0-0.lvn.5.noarch.rpm
http://www.leemhuis.info/files/fedorarpms/REPO.lvn/3/wlan/RPMS/kernel-module-ipw2200-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-0.16-0.lvn.1.i686.rpm

HTH

I got it from:
ipw2200-0.17-16.rhfc3.at.i386.rpms: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200/

ipw2200-firmware-2.1-4.at.noarch.rpms:
http://atrpms.net/dist/common/ipw2200-firmware/

kernel-module-ipw2200-2.6.9-1.681_FC3-0.17-16.rhfc3.at.i686.rpms:
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc3/ipw2200/

Hi Otto, thanks for the info.

If you hav Problems with atrpms packages then atrpms bugzilla might be
the right place:
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/

The packages/driver you refer are newer then my last post AFAICS. Do
they still have the problem?

And to see if this is a fedora core issue: Please remove the atrpms
packages, install the current -715 kernel from updates-testing,
install the firmware from ipw2200.sf.net manually to /lib/firmware and
see if its a problem there also -- but I suspect it is cause it works
fine for me.

Hi,

I confirm the driver and firmware from ipw2200.sf.net are working with
the fedora kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3.

You can also found a rpm and srpm with ipw2200-0.18 drivers and
ipw2200-fw-2.1 firmware at http://www.qantic.com/fedora, if that can
help you.

With the right firmware ipw2200 works just splendid in RHFC3 with the
2.6.10-1.741-FC3 kernel. The ipw2200 module is included in that
version of the kernel but the firmware is not. The message
ipw2200_boot.fw load failed is displayed when the wrong version of
firmware is used or you dont have any firmware installed in
/lib/firmware, maybe other errors report this to i dont know. The
firmware i used with the kernel above is: v0.6-v0.16. Can anyone
confirm this?

I think I know what the issue is. I am using 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 kernel
udev-039-10.FC3.6 and at ATRPMS packages I downloaded from the link on
the sourceforge page:

ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.at
ipw2200-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.10-1.741_FC3-1.0.0-23.rhfc3.at

When you look at the error message it is about ipw2200_boot.fw,
however, the firmware in /lib/firmware is called ipw_2.2_boot.fw. I
symlinked the boot, bss and ucode and it worked (evidence is this
message:)

George

Still wondering why this bug is still open and not closed as NOTABUG

These *.at are all atrpms packages. If you have trouble -- go report at
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/

Fedora does not/can't ship the firmware files due to the license. If
you  install them correctly then is works (at least for me, some other
people I know, and for you also it seems). So everything works from
the fedora-standpoint AFAICS.

just trying to be nice and help :)  

George, in comment #16 you explicitely mention using kernel
2.6.10-1.760_FC3, but kmdls for 2.6.10-1.741_FC3. So you have been
using the kernel's ipw2200 (which is <= 0.16) instead of 1.0.0.

You need to get the kmdls matching your kernel. Use

<favourite tool here> install ipw2200-kmdl-`uname -r`

where favourite tool is yum/up2date/apt/smart.

(P.S. I just found this bug by searching for atrpms in comments
otherwise I would have commented earlier)

I had the same comments as the person above. Could not get it worked 
util I changed the name of the firmware file in 
/lib/firmware

-rw-r--r--  2 root root   6472 Feb  6 16:22 ipw2200_boot.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root 166960 Feb  6 16:22 ipw2200_bss.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root 161568 Feb  6 16:22 ipw2200_ibss.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root  16312 Feb  6 16:22 ipw2200_ibss_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root  16334 Feb  6 16:22 ipw2200_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root   6472 Feb  6 16:22 ipw-2.2-boot.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root 166960 Feb  6 16:22 ipw-2.2-bss.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root  16334 Feb  6 16:22 ipw-2.2-bss_ucode.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root 161568 Feb  6 16:22 ipw-2.2-ibss.fw
-rw-r--r--  2 root root  16312 Feb  6 16:22 ipw-2.2-ibss_ucode.fw

rmmod ipw2200 and try

modprobe -ns ipw2200

to see which ipw2200 module is being loaded. It is probably not the
one from the packages you installed (they have /updates/ in their
paths, while the kernel's has /kernel/).

In that case you either have the wrong package for your kernel or a
module-init-tools that does not honor the updates folder.