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Description of problem:
During init the ipw2100 (Intet Pro Wireless 2100) driver is unable to
load it's firmware via hotplug. Once the system is started, firmware
loading works fine by doing rmmod ipw2100; modprobe ipw2100.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hotplug-2004_04_01-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile and install ipw2100 driver according to instructions in URL
2. reboot system
    

Actual Results:  Network adapter is not recognized. dmesg shows the
following:

ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.43
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
Detected ipw2100 PCI device at 0000:02:02.0, dev: eth1, mem:
0x90000000-0x90000FFF -> e1992000, irq: 5
eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.0.fw' not available or load failed.
eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5



Expected Results:  dmesg should have shown the following:

ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.43
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
Detected ipw2100 PCI device at 0000:02:02.0, dev: eth1, mem:
0x90000000-0x90000FFF -> e1a1b000, irq: 5
eth1: Using hotplug firmware load.


Additional info:

I fixed this by downloading
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2004_03_29.tar.gz?download
and copying /hotplug-2004_03_29/etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug from that
archive to /etc/init.d/hotplug followed by a "chkconfig --add
hotplug". After this the firmware loads fine during init.