From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3065138247 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B8C2E0B96; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns.e-nautia.com (ns.e-nautia.com [176.31.246.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DF4FE0B8F for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ns.e-nautia.com (Postfix, from userid 33) id A7891283923; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:54:25 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=iiiha.com; s=default; t=1387443265; bh=B9Fd5d1Dsugcldiofo79ya+SbB8fUSPD0Nr/K8HIu2Y=; h=To:Subject:Date:From:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=dY+LCtZT4r3RrfMjZBhpR4//IfQL+MqE6Jo3AmH6X5gwU72xg99PW33S5kcd+DgAF uRxJxTMYNx7OlJjKKJQ1JmEWlCi7C2aGern6vQV9LP9l3Sh8s2lj7w+YsBlW+ybGUm Ig5PwaukBlV79TKlFj2byV2Hy89PJDqB+GPgGNYQ= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1001:rcmail.php Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:54:25 +0100 From: Florian HEGRON In-Reply-To: <1387442825.2920.16.camel@iivanov-dev.int.mm-sol.com> References: <77c2dd747595c6d15fcea8c7a5d3bfcd@iiiha.com> <52AF22B3.7020504@gentoo.org> <201312162027.25626.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <9ae1613c1a9b758044f485b3440e6d72@iiiha.com> <20131217104858.380427dc@digimed.co.uk> <51c8c14df2abcb939426b4b018f373be@iiiha.com> <1387442825.2920.16.camel@iivanov-dev.int.mm-sol.com> Message-ID: <4569bf91942577663878b1e0e91f27a4@iiiha.com> X-Sender: hogren@iiiha.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.0 X-abuse-contact: abuse@e-nautia.com X-Archives-Salt: d2575496-692b-4d63-a599-04e66906f9b6 X-Archives-Hash: b4ee4bb2d5fe5f42cef8f2924fdc9506 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. > > [ 61.409941] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2 > [ 61.411877] ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:04.0 failed with error -5 > > > It's not explicit for me. -2, -5, Where are errors descriptions ? > > > Anybody can explain to me the firmware goal ? > > For me a firmware is a internal software of a device. So I don't really > understand. > > You can look at wireless card as CPU with just RAM (there are > some other chips of course), so firmware is code which have to be > executed by this specialized CPU in order to control RF stuff. And > because code is not saved to non-volatile storage it have to be loaded > to RAM every time after card is powered up. Driver itself "just" > ensure proper communication between networking stack and CPU on > wireless card. > > Regards, > Ivan > Very good explain ! Thank you ! I don't understand the error because I have the firmware. Thank you for help.