[Bug 6674] ipw2200 fails to load

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------- Additional Comments From mdz at ubuntu.com  2005-03-02 01:48 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> I updated from 2.6.10-3 to -4 ... firmwares resides in /lib/hotplug/firmware and
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware is empty.

It has always been this way in Ubuntu, since well before the 4.10 release.

> I added links from /lib/hotplug/firmware
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware - that did'nt work. I also created a link
> ipw2100-1.3.fw (thats what the driver seems to search for) - no success. 

The driver requests the name "ipw2100-1.3.fw", and the hotplug firmware loader
resolves this by looking for "ipw2100-1.3.fw-2.6.10-4-386" or similar.  This is
working fine for me with an ipw2200 card, as it always has.

Please check: dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Version}\n' hotplug
 
> btw. shouldn't the firmware be independent from processor and architecture, so
> why are there fw-images for every processor/architecture combination?

The firmware is included with the kernel image for simplicity.  In theory it
could be split into a separate package, and shared, but I'm not sure that this
is worth the additional complexity.

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