On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2009 11:29:22 Marco wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, >> etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. >> >> In the boot messagesI have: >> [...] >> * Starting wlan0 >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory >> * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory >> Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP >> [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... >> [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... >> [...] >> >> And dmesg shows: >> [...] >> iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 >> iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was >> 0x100102, writing 0x100106) >> firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode >> iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 >> iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 > > Did you install the microcode?
emerge -pv net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-15.32.2.9 66 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 66 kB Yes, it seems to be installed. -- Regards, Marco
