Bug#495685: firmware-iwlwifi: microcode error
Stefano Sabatini
Version: 0.12
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I got this when I try to load iwl3945:
When I try the command:
modprobe iwl3945
it hangs for half a minute, then I get this error:
iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:10:00.0 disabled
iwl3945: probe of 0000:10:00.0 failed with error -2
I'm using firmware-iwlwifi 0.12, with a linux-2.6.24 i686 debian
custom kernel.
Regards.
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:02:56PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> it hangs for half a minute, then I get this error:
> iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
-2 is ENOENT aka no such file or directory.
> iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:10:00.0 disabled
> iwl3945: probe of 0000:10:00.0 failed with error -2
>
> I'm using firmware-iwlwifi 0.12, with a linux-2.6.24 i686 debian
> custom kernel.
2.6.24 is not longer in testing/sid, the only dists which ships
firmware-iwlwifi 0.12.
I know that the following combination works:
| ||/ Name Version Description
| +++-==============-==============-============================================
| ii firmware-iwlwi 0.12 Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945 and
| ii linux-image-2. 2.6.26-2 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
| ii udev 0.125-5 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
Bastian
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Didier Raboud
> Package: firmware-iwlwifi
> Version: 0.12
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> I got this when I try to load iwl3945:
>
> When I try the command:
> modprobe iwl3945
>
> it hangs for half a minute, then I get this error:
>
> iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
> iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:10:00.0 disabled
> iwl3945: probe of 0000:10:00.0 failed with error -2
>
> I'm using firmware-iwlwifi 0.12, with a linux-2.6.24 i686 debian
> custom kernel.
>
> Regards.
Hi,
a new firmware-iwlwifi package is available in unstable. Please try this new
package and update your linux-image to get the latest iwlwifi driver and
report back if the problem is still alive.
N.B. I don't get any error with the firmware...
Regards,
OdyX
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Stefano Sabatini
Updated to iwlwifi-firmware 0.13.
stefano@geppetto ~> uname -a
Linux geppetto 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 15:18:09 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
stefano@geppetto ~> sudo modprobe -r iwl3945
stefano@geppetto ~> sudo modprobe iwl3945
with dmesg I get:
[ 332.178973] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
[ 332.178973] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
[ 332.178973] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:10:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 332.178973] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:10:00.0 to 64
[ 332.178973] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
[ 332.218972] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
[ 332.218972] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
stefano@geppetto ~> sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
So the module looks correctly loaded.
stefano@geppetto ~> sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning
Here it hangs for 30 seconds more or less, then I get this:
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
From dmesg:
[ 372.025418] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[ 432.097666] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[ 432.097676] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
stefano@geppetto ~> locate iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
Hints will be highly appreciated.
Regards.
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Stefano Sabatini
And the problem was...
udevd was dead, so it couldn't load the firmware. It took me a good
guessing effort for realizing that firmware is loaded by udev, I was
indeed experiencing the same loading firmware problem with another
module and finally I read something about the firmware being loaded by
udev.
Please improve the behaviour of the module so that it will check for
the presence of udevd and tell explicitely if it isn't present rather
than hang forever trying to load the firmware.
Anyway, bug report has to be considered closed, now I have to
understand why udevd was dying...
Thanks, regards.
dann frazier
> In data marted? 2008-10-14 20:49:17 +0200, Stefano Sabatini ha scritto:
> > In data luned? 2008-10-06 19:45:36 +0200, Didier Raboud ha scritto:
> > > Le mardi 19 ao?t 2008 19:02:56 Stefano Sabatini, vous avez ?crit?:
Thanks for the followup!
> Thanks, regards.
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dann frazier