On a DELL D610 I get pretty much the same error as the original reporter did, see below. My card gets into this "broken" state all the time, notably whenever the machine is suspended, without me having fiddled explicitly with the power state. To recover functionality I have to boot with a different operating system. Sometimes it also works to repeatedly load/unload the ipw2200 module, randomly pressing the Fn-F2 radio kill switch button in between.
This is using the latest 2.6.20-13-generic in feisty. Thus, the bug is not "moot" wrt 2.6.20, but the driver should really be fixed to set the power state properly when loading. Please reopen the bug for 2.6.20; this is a very severe bug for me; if it is not fixed for the feisty release I will have to keep tracking the unstable kernel in the hope that a fix comes along... I assume that I am not alone in this. Thanks! # modprobe -r ipw2200 # modprobe ipw2200 # dmesg | tail -9 ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: Unable to load ucode: -22 ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -22 ipw2200: failed to register network device ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:03.0 disabled ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed with error -5 -- ipw2200 module can't be reloaded if its status was set to 2 https://launchpad.net/bugs/42387 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
