IPW2915 Wireless fails in Xen Dom0

[Mark Reitblatt]

Running Feisty, installed the ubuntu-xen-desktop package, and booted into Xen. Wireless is no longer working (or detected at all). I'll post dmesg/lspci output as soon as I figure out why X is completely unresponsive (except for mouse!) under Xen...

uname -a:
Linux mercury 2.6.19-4-generic #2 SMP Mon Mar 5 21:31:58 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Mark Reitblatt (mark-reitblatt)]

Looking in kern.log, I noticed these lines:

Mar 20 22:13:22 mercury kernel: [ 13.349594] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_f
irmware failed: Reason -2
Mar 20 22:13:22 mercury kernel: [ 13.350363] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware:
 -2
Mar 20 22:13:22 mercury kernel: [ 13.350426] ipw2200: failed to register netwo
rk device

I'm attaching the relevant section of kern.log.

[Anthony Godshall (agodshall)]

I had a similar problem on my Dell Inspiron 8600 and ipw2100.

I resolved it like so:

workingversion=2.6.20-15-lowlatency
brokenversion=2.6.19-4-generic
mkdir -p /lib/firmware/$brokenversion/firmware
cp -a /lib/firmware/$workingversion/firmware/ipw2100-1.3.fw /lib/firmware/$brokenversion/firmware/.

I tried this after discovering that there was not a linux-restricted-modules-common for xen-image-2.6.19-4-generic.

Hope this works for you- report back please!

Anthony Godshall

[Anthony Godshall (agodshall)]

Oh, and I should mention that I did this first...

# rmmod ipw2100
(obviously in your case it would be ipw2200)

...and that I did this after the above...

# modprobe ipw2100

...and that the message "Unable to load firmware:" did not occur, which told me that it had in fact found the firmware.

Anthony Godshall

[Evan198 (chyz198)]

Anthony Godshall 's the way works!!! I have been googling for solution to this problem several days, finally it works! Thanks~~

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

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