Re: ipw2200 doesn't load firmware on battery-powered boot

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On 8/9/06, Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dell Latitude D610, FC5, happens at least since 2.6.18-rc2 and
>  it's fully reproducable. Sorry for not reporting earlier but I've been
>  recently either on vacation or very busy...
>
> Booting with AC always makes interface eth1 appear:
>
> Aug  8 21:32:48 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmpr
> Aug  8 21:32:48 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel
> Corporation
> Aug  8 21:32:49 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
> 2200BG Network Connection
> Aug  8 21:32:49 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13
> 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
>
> Booting without AC always fails to load firmware:
>
> Aug  9 19:06:01 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmpr
> Aug  9 19:06:01 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel
> Corporation
> Aug  9 19:06:01 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
> 2200BG Network Connection
> Aug  9 19:06:01 sandman kernel: ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw
> request_firmware failed: Reason -2
> Aug  9 19:06:01 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> Aug  9 19:06:01 sandman kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network device
> Aug  9 19:06:01 sandman kernel: ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed
> with error -5
>
> A post-boot modprobe -r ipw2200; modprobe ipw2200 makes eth1
>  appear even on battery power:
>
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: ieee80211: 802.11
> data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005
> Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmpr
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel
> Corporation
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] ->
> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
> 2200BG Network Connection
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13
> 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
> Aug  9 19:14:36 sandman kernel: eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver
> should report queue full via ieee_device->is_queue_full.
>
> The above log snippets are from 2.6.18-rc4 kernels; full boot logs
>  from both cases attached.

Right, so I managed to save logs as root, perm 600, and try and
 attach them as non-root and got not even a warning from either
 Firefox or the GMail interface. Tsk, tsk.

In any case, I now put them up here:

http://xoomer.alice.it/incident/messages-boot-ac.log
http://xoomer.alice.it/incident/messages-boot-battery.log

Sorry for the double message. Thanks,

--alessandro

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"There isn't one."
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