Any thoughts / ideas would be greatly appreciated. :o) I'm about to rip a handful of hair out of my head. :)
-james On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:46 AM, James <j...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Folks, > > I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode. > > After a fresh install Gentoo install wireless works with no issues. > Upon installing a set that includes xorg, Firefox, hal, VirtualBox, > etc. the wireless ceases to work. Check out a snippet from my dmesg: > > ~ % dmesg | grep -i iwl > iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:d > iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54 > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode' failed. > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode' failed. > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found! > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled > > Re-emerging the microcode, wpa_supplicant, wireless-tools, etc. > doesn't seem to do anything. The wireless still doesn't work. These > files *do* exist where they belong (/lib/firmware). > > Once I emerge the set (below), a reload then results in the error(s) above. > > Google didn't reveal much. Any thoughts / ideas on how to troubleshoot > this would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > -james > > -->8-- > full set below > > app-cdr/xfburn > app-editors/mousepad > app-emulation/virtualbox-bin > mail-client/mutt > mail-client/thunderbird > net-analyzer/tcpdump > net-analyzer/wireshark > net-im/pidgin > net-news/liferea > x11-plugins/pidgin-musictracker > x11-plugins/pidgin-extprefs > x11-plugins/pidgin-otr > x11-plugins/pidgin-encryption > net-print/xfprint > sys-apps/hal > www-client/firefox > x11-base/xorg-drivers > x11-base/xorg-x11 > x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel > x11-terms/xterm > x11-themes/echo-icon-theme > x11-themes/human-icon-theme > x11-themes/iceicons > x11-themes/tangerine-icon-theme > x11-themes/tango-icon-theme > x11-themes/tango-icon-theme-extras > x11-themes/wm-icons > x11-themes/xfce-gant-icon-theme > x11-themes/xfwm4-themes > x11-wm/compiz-fusion > xfce-base/thunar > xfce-base/xfce4-meta > xfce-extra/thunar-archive-plugin > xfce-extra/thunar-thumbnailers > xfce-extra/thunar-volman > xfce-extra/xfce4-battery-plugin > xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer > xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin > xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager > xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin > xfce-extra/xfce4-taskmanager > xfce-extra/xfce4-verve-plugin >
