Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

[Florian HEGRON <hogren@iiiha.com>]

On 2013-12-19 15:39, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 18:27 +0400, the wrote:
> On 12/19/13 17:19, Florian HEGRON wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2013-12-19 12:05, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 09:54 +0100, Florian HEGRON wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2013-12-19 09:47, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> >>> Hi Florian,
> >>>
> >> Hi
> >>> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 09:08 +0100, Florian HEGRON wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I found the line !!
> >>>
> >>> I had to enable wireless extension option on Network Support
> >>> -> Wireless
> >>>
> >>> So I enable my card support, and I reboot (I already emerge
> >>> ipw2200-firmware).
> >>>
> >>> #dmesg | grep 2200 [    1.180583] ipw2200: Intel(R)
> >>> PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2k [    1.180643]
> >>> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation [
> >>> 1.182617] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
> >>> Connection [   61.408070] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw
> >>> request_firmware failed: Reason -2
> >>>
> >>> This means that driver can not find ipw2200-bss.fw file
> >>> (probably part  of sys-firmware/ipw2200-firmware) to load it to
> >>> wireless card RAM chip. Ensure that you have that file, usually
> >>> it is localed in /lib/firmware.
> >>>
> >> This file is present, I checked.
> >>
> >>
> >> How did you build this driver? I mean as module or it is build in
> >> ([M] or [*]). If it is build in it is possible that root file
> >> system is not mounted when driver loads. Try to build it as
> >> module.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards, Ivan
> >
> > Built-in and I don't have initramfs. I will test with module
> > compilation and may be with an initramfs. What do you think ?
> 
> When I was installing gentoo on my netbook I had to compile
> the wifi driver as a module because it couldn't load
> firmware if it was built in. Didn't find any other solution.
> 
> There is another solution already explained by @Bruce Hill
> earlier in this thread.
> 
> Regards.
> 
I will test the two solutions.
I will write the results.

Regards,