Folks, I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode.
After a fresh install Gentoo install wireless works with no issues. Upon installing a set that includes xorg, Firefox, hal, VirtualBox, etc. the wireless ceases to work. Check out a snippet from my dmesg: ~ % dmesg | grep -i iwl iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:d iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode' failed. iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode' failed. iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found! iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled Re-emerging the microcode, wpa_supplicant, wireless-tools, etc. doesn't seem to do anything. The wireless still doesn't work. These files *do* exist where they belong (/lib/firmware). Once I emerge the set (below), a reload then results in the error(s) above. Google didn't reveal much. Any thoughts / ideas on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. Thanks! -james -->8-- full set below app-cdr/xfburn app-editors/mousepad app-emulation/virtualbox-bin mail-client/mutt mail-client/thunderbird net-analyzer/tcpdump net-analyzer/wireshark net-im/pidgin net-news/liferea x11-plugins/pidgin-musictracker x11-plugins/pidgin-extprefs x11-plugins/pidgin-otr x11-plugins/pidgin-encryption net-print/xfprint sys-apps/hal www-client/firefox x11-base/xorg-drivers x11-base/xorg-x11 x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel x11-terms/xterm x11-themes/echo-icon-theme x11-themes/human-icon-theme x11-themes/iceicons x11-themes/tangerine-icon-theme x11-themes/tango-icon-theme x11-themes/tango-icon-theme-extras x11-themes/wm-icons x11-themes/xfce-gant-icon-theme x11-themes/xfwm4-themes x11-wm/compiz-fusion xfce-base/thunar xfce-base/xfce4-meta xfce-extra/thunar-archive-plugin xfce-extra/thunar-thumbnailers xfce-extra/thunar-volman xfce-extra/xfce4-battery-plugin xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin xfce-extra/xfce4-taskmanager xfce-extra/xfce4-verve-plugin
