On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 08:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I'm trying to help an ipw2200 user on the openSUSE Wireless Forum and I'm
> stuck. The system is failing to load the firmware with error -2 (File or
> directory not found). The difficulty is that the required files are
> present with the correct permissions.
>
> What system component might be missing and/or borked to get this symptom?
Older versions of compat-wireless had a race condition in the firmware
code that could cause that. From the log of the compat repository:
commit 524449c0184d44773d4947db8cd3bfd98a0a215f
Author: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 22 16:54:02 2010 +0300
compat: fix uevent_suppress on 2.6.29 or older kernels
Missing uevent_suppress is causing two uevents instead of one, which is
confusing udev and sometimes causing firmware load to fail due to race
condition, so let's add it.
Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@xxxxxxxxx>
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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