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

[the <the.guard@mail.ru>]

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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.

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