On a DELL D610 I get pretty much the same error as the original reporter
did, see below. My card gets into this "broken" state all the time,
notably whenever the machine is suspended, without me having fiddled
explicitly with the power state. To recover functionality I have to boot
with a different operating system. Sometimes it also works to repeatedly
load/unload the ipw2200 module, randomly pressing the Fn-F2 radio kill
switch button in between.
This is using the latest 2.6.20-13-generic in feisty. Thus, the bug is
not "moot" wrt 2.6.20, but the driver should really be fixed to set the
power state properly when loading. Please reopen the bug for 2.6.20;
this is a very severe bug for me; if it is not fixed for the feisty
release I will have to keep tracking the unstable kernel in the hope
that a fix comes along... I assume that I am not alone in this. Thanks!
# modprobe -r ipw2200
# modprobe ipw2200
# dmesg | tail -9
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Unable to load ucode: -22
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -22
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :03:03.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of :03:03.0 failed with error -5
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ipw2200 module can't be reloaded if its status was set to 2
https://launchpad.net/bugs/42387
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