Fails to load firmware for ipw2200 card

[Crispin Flowerday]

I have had my wireless card working perfectly for the last couple of weeks (this
is in breezy), and suddenly today, it has started to fail to load the firmware:

lspci of the card:

0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2702
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

dmesg from loading the module:

[4294697.876000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.4
[4294697.876000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
[4294697.883000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11
(level, low) -> IRQ 11
[4294697.883000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[4294698.382000] ipw2200: Unable to load ucode
[4294698.382000] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFC2
[4294698.382000] ipw2200: failed to register network device
[4294698.382000] ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

I have the lots of firmware files in /lib/hotplug/firmware, and oddly I can't
see anything that I have upgraded between the last boot when it was working and
now where it isn't working (it is still failing even after a couple of reboots).

(This is with linux-image-2.6.12-3-686 version 3.3)

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Please compare bug 14741.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14741.