Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
I am trying to put in operation an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG WLAN centrino
laptop. I did compile a 2.6.15 kernel, which is supposed to support WLAN.
So far, I also downloaded the firmware ipw2200-fw-2.4 from Intel, and here my
problem starts: I did unpack the firmware ipw2200-fw-2.4 in /etc/firmware,
as the documentation of kernel 2.6.15 says, but during the boot process I
get a "ipw-2.4-boot.fw load failed. Reason -2" message. Googling this message
tells me, that the firmware is probably not placed in the right directory.
Well, I put the firmware
in /lib/firmware, /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, /etc/firmware etc. etc.,
withouth results.
/lib/firmware is the correct folder
Obviously I have a hotplug-problem. Can someone tell me, where does the
kernel 2.6.15 look for firmware ? What is a "firmware.agent"
firmware.agent is a script in /etc/hotplug that is called in response to
a hotplug event when the kernel calls for firmware
I am reading
from some distributions, is there something similar available for scratch ?
I am struggling with my wireless laptop on linux, but, very sad to say, it is
working fine on windows.
Help very appreciated !
Edgar
Did you compile the driver for your wireless card into the kernel? If
it's compiled into the kernel it could ask for the firmware before the
root file system is mounted. That may be why it is unable to find the
firmware. Try compiling it as a module. If /lib/modules is readable,
/lib/firmware should be readable.
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