Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:17:31 -0400
tjb at unh.edu ("Thomas J. Baker") wrote:

> 
> This kernel doesn't seem to like my firmware. I first tried copying
> the current firmware to the properly named file which didn't work. I
> then downloaded the latest available firmware from the intel site and
> still get this same error:
> 
> continuity> dmesg | grep iwl
> iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver
> for Linux, 0.1.8kd iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
> iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
> iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
> iwl3945: probe of 0000:0c:00.0 failed with error -2
> continuity> ls -l /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149652 2007-07-26
> 19:23 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
> continuity> 
> 
> Any ideas?

It's not the kernel. It's udev. :( I ran into the same thing this
morning. It was a pain to track down. ;) 

There is already a new udev: 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=13911

it's bug: 252983

So, upgrade to that udev. 

> Thanks,
> 
> tjb

kevin
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