Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:22 +0200, Marco wrote:

> after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world,
> etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore.

What did you update? Telling us you updated wporld means nothing, it just
tells us that one of the unknown packages you updated may have broken
something. Use genlop or qlop to produce a list of the exact packages
installed.

> iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
> iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
[snip]
> Some research on 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory' showed that
> this is often caused by missing firmware for the wireless card. But
> net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode is installed on my system.

You may have it installed, but it is either in the wrong place or an
incompatible version as the kernel cannot load it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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