On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:34:36PM -0000, Nick Leverton wrote: > On the other hand there could well be more than one problem here ... > I see the initramfs-tools package has just been re-issued but this fix > is still not applied. But - I now have working ipw2200 even though this > patch is not included in it.
I spoke too soon, just rebooted into latest kernel and once again the same error: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2 I can apply the above patch to the new /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions and rebuild initramfs to get a working driver at boot again. Don't know how to raise the visibility on this bugfix ... anyone ? > And I've had no "firmware error, restarting" > messages recently (last five days). Has something else changed concerning > module firmware behaviour I wonder ? At least this remains true, I've had only three "Firmware error, restarting" since 8th June. Prior to that it was several times per hour so this at least has improved a lot :) Nick -- Serendipity: http://www.leverton.org/blosxom (last update 6th June 2008) "The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life" -- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996 -- ipw2200 driver fails to load firmware (patch attached) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180544 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs