[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#458933: Bug#458933: hal: fails to load firmware

[Michael Biebl]

reassign #458933 udev
thanks

Jacek Misiurewicz schrieb:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.10-5
> Severity: important
> 
> Firmware for iwl3945 is not loaded after inserting module with modprobe. 
> In the result, ENOENT (-2) is reported and module(& hardware) is unusable. 
> The same happens with ipw3945.
> 
> I have checked that microcode is in place (/lib/firmware) and the filename 
> is correct.
> 
> Seems to me that udev asks hal to (add) firmware, and the 
> request is ignored.
> 
> It happened after some system upgrade, but I cannot trace WHAT is the real 
> cause - too many packages were upgraded and the WiFi has not been used 
> since the upgrade (until now). Tried to downgrade hal or udev down to 
> "stable", it didn't help.
> 
> It could be more generic problem - the alsa audio is also broken after the 
> upgrade.

Definitely not a hal problem. hal doesn't load any firmware or kernel
modules.
I'm not 100% sure, if it's udev in your case. But it's much more likely
than hal. I'm thus reassigning the bug to udev.
As you seem to use a self-compiled kernel, maybe you could try to use an
official debian kernel and see if that solves your problem.

Cheers,
Michael


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