Public bug reported: The wireless card on the ThinkPad X61 (driver iwl4965) does not work on Hardy Heron and kernel 2.6.24. I find the following error in dmesg:
[ 31.395298] iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.1.17kds [ 31.395305] iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation [ 31.395626] iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN [ 33.742698] iwl4965: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 [ 33.742705] iwl4965: Could not read microcode: -2 [ 33.743445] iwl4965: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -2 According to Gentoo Wiki[1] (see the very bottom of the page), this is only a version mismatch. Hope that helps. " * "iwl4965: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2" and similar for iwl3945 indicate a firmware version/filename mismatch just rename the file to whatever iwlwif displays in this case: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode " [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw3945 ** Affects: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179488 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
