[Bug 24776] Re: ipw2100 - "Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart."

[ozstriker78]

Ok, after the reboot, the driver failed to load because of missing
firmware...

[  116.811667] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
[  116.811685] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[  116.814957] ipw2100 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[  116.816258] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
[  116.816990] firmware: requesting ipw2100-1.3.fw
[  116.821452] ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed.
[  116.821472] ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
[  116.821482] ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.
[  116.821488] ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware.
[  116.821496] ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
[  116.823746] ipw2100 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A disabled
[  116.826274] ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

Then I remembered where the firmware was installed in /lib/firmware
/$KERNEL-VERSION

The 2.6.27-7 version didn't have the ipw2100 firmware, so I copied it
over from 2.6.42-21...

cp 2.6.24-21-generic/ipw2100-1.3* 2.6.27-7-generic/

Then reloaded the ipw2100 module.

At this point the card started up fine and I was able to connect to my
WPA2 authenticated access point with out any problems.

I'm not sure if I should be using that version of the firmware, but as
long as this bug goes away, I really don't care.  I will keep an eye out
for the "Fatal Interrupt" error and report whether or not the problem
persists.

-Rick

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ipw2100 - "Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart."
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