Comment 24 for bug 180544

nick, any chance of some step-by-step instructions for applying your patch
in latest hardy?

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Nick Leverton <email address hidden> wrote:

> 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
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> ipw2200 driver fails to load firmware (patch attached)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180544
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