On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:06, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 14:44, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote: > > Hi, I have a laptop with an Intel Pro Wireless mini-PCI card and I > > installed the IPW2100 driver and I can do a modprobe ipw2100 and it > > loads the module and the firmware but when I boot the laptop the module > > gets loaded automatically but it can't find the firmware. After Fedora > > is done booting I can do an rmmod ipw2100 and then a modprobe ipw2100 > > and the module will load and it will find and load the firmware. I asked > > on the IPW2100-devel list and someone suggested to me that maybe it was > > because the modules gets loaded before fedora starts hotplugging. I just > > looked at the init scripts and hotplug seems to start in the rc.sysinit > > so obviously it should start before networking. Is there a way I could > > make sure hotplugging gets started earlier than the networking in the > > boot process? Anybody had a similar problem? > > > > Jean-Rene Cormier > > Another person on the list answered a similar question for me a couple > of days ago. > > In your network config for the card turn off the start at boot option. > > Was not intuitive but it works for me. I can boot up and the card and > network get started. I had it setup like that for my PCMCIA card and it worked but this is for the internal wireless card and setting ONBOOT=no doesn't work. The module gets loaded at boot and I get this message: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.44 ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 Detected ipw2100 PCI devoce at 0000:02:04.0, dev: eth1, mem 0xE0210000-0xE0210FFF -> 2a701000, irq: 5 eth1: Using hotplug firmware load. eth1: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.1.fw' not available or load failed. eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2 eth1: Failed to power on the adapter. eth1: Failed to start the firmware. divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1 ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5 Then if I do an rmmod ipw2100 and modprobe ipw2100 it loads fine and I get this in my logs: ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.44 ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 Detected ipw2100 PCI devoce at 0000:02:04.0, dev: eth1, mem 0xE0210000-0xE0210FFF -> 2a701000, irq: 5 eth1: Using hotplug firmware load. ipw2100: attempt to use fw ordinals before they have been loaded. ipw2100: Associated with 'WLAN' at 11Mbps, channel 11 and then it works fine so it looks like there's something that loads between the time the module is initially loaded and the time I reload it that makes a difference. Jean-Rene Cormier
