Package: udev Version: 0.054-2 Severity: important Hello, I just done a clean install of my laptop. I had had my ipw2100 wireless card working for some time, however, after the clean install it simply has refused to work. I just noticed that udev has recently changed the /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug value to /sbin/udevsend.
It appears that /sbin/udevsend is somehow swallowing the firmware load request event? A walkthrough of what happens: Set the hotplug agend to udevsend: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# echo /sbin/udevsend >/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug Try probing my module: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# modprobe -v ipw2100 insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211_crypt.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko The kernel doesn't like it: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# tail -10 /var/log/kern.log Mar 10 14:14:48 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.0.5 Mar 10 14:14:48 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation Mar 10 14:14:48 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 Mar 10 14:14:48 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed. Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2 Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter. Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware. Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100Error calling register_netdev. Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5 Cleanup: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# modprobe -v -r ipw2100 rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211.ko rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211_crypt.ko Set the hotplug agent to hotplug: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# echo /sbin/hotplug >/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug Try probing again: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# modprobe -v ipw2100 insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211_crypt.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko No errors this time: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# tail -10 /var/log/kern.log Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter. Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware. Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100Error calling register_netdev. Mar 10 14:14:58 localhost kernel: ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5 Mar 10 14:16:18 localhost kernel: ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL' (deinit) Mar 10 14:17:03 localhost kernel: ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' Mar 10 14:17:03 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.0.5 Mar 10 14:17:03 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation Mar 10 14:17:03 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 Mar 10 14:17:03 localhost kernel: ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection And my wireless device is visible: cweeks-lap:/home/cpw# cat /proc/net/wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 16 eth1: 0800 0. 0. 0. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thanks, Christian -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-03-09 23:30 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-03-09 23:30 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-03-09 23:29 z_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/dm-0/dev /sys/block/dm-1/dev /sys/block/dm-2/dev /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hdc/dev /sys/block/hdc/hdc1/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/class/drm/radeon/dev /sys/class/input/event0/dev /sys/class/input/event1/dev /sys/class/input/event2/dev /sys/class/input/event3/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/input/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/mouse1/dev /sys/class/input/ts0/dev /sys/class/input/ts1/dev /sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/misc/vmmon/dev /sys/class/printer/lp0/dev /sys/class/sound/adsp/dev /sys/class/sound/audio1/dev /sys/class/sound/audio/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC1/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp1/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer1/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D3c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D4p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-17 Linux Hotplug Scripts ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 Standard scripts needed for bootin ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii makedev 2.3.1-76 creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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