found these lines in dmesg -- looks like the firmware loading is failing both for the graphics and the wifi. In the case of the graphics wattOS successfully works around the problem, but for the wifi it doesn't.
Are the two firmware load failures connected, d'you think? Or is it just coincidence.
Any ideas, or is this time to report this as a bug?
[ 8.145098] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
[ 8.145153] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
[ 8.145193] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
[ 8.145235] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[ 8.145311] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[ 8.145344] [TTM] Finalizing pool allocator
[ 8.146568] [TTM] Zone kernel: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB
[ 8.146577] [drm] radeon: ttm finalized
[ 8.147872] [drm] Forcing AGP to PCI mode
[ 8.148616] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 8.149879] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.10
[ 8.149950] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH4-M TCO device (Version=1, TCOBASE=0x0860)
[ 8.150627] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[ 8.153542] radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0x00000000E8000000 - 0x00000000EFFFFFFF (32M used)
[ 8.153556] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000C8000000 - 0x00000000E7FFFFFF
[ 8.154504] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M
[ 8.154514] [drm] RAM width 64bits DDR
[ 8.162881] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 256334 kiB
[ 8.162889] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[ 8.162957] [drm] radeon: 32M of VRAM memory ready
[ 8.162964] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[ 8.162987] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[ 8.166357] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
[ 8.169984] [drm] PCI GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x000000001F580000).
[ 8.173614] radeon 0000:01:00.0: WB disabled
[ 8.173634] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x00000000c8000000 and cpu addr 0xdeae5000
[ 8.173642] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 8.173648] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 8.173677] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 8.173684] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
[ 8.173720] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R200_cp.bin (-2)
[ 8.173769] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[ 8.173777] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 8.175333] input: DualPoint Stick as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
[ 8.198171] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
[ 8.215545] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 8.215555] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 8.246479] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
[ 8.246535] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
[ 8.246576] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
[ 8.246617] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[ 8.248874] [drm] Panel ID String: 6J5644141XB
[ 8.248874]
[ 8.248885] [drm] Panel Size 1024x768
[ 8.249030] [drm] No TV DAC info found in BIOS
[ 8.269128] [drm] radeon legacy LVDS backlight initialized
[ 8.269136] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[ 8.269141] [drm] Connector 0:
[ 8.269147] [drm] VGA-1
[ 8.269156] [drm] DDC: 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60
[ 8.269161] [drm] Encoders:
[ 8.269166] [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC1
[ 8.269171] [drm] Connector 1:
[ 8.269177] [drm] DVI-D-1
[ 8.269182] [drm] HPD1
[ 8.269189] [drm] DDC: 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64
[ 8.269194] [drm] Encoders:
[ 8.269199] [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_TMDS1
[ 8.269203] [drm] Connector 2:
[ 8.269209] [drm] LVDS-1
[ 8.269213] [drm] Encoders:
[ 8.269218] [drm] LCD1: INTERNAL_LVDS
[ 8.269223] [drm] Connector 3:
[ 8.269228] [drm] SVIDEO-1
[ 8.269232] [drm] Encoders:
[ 8.269237] [drm] TV1: INTERNAL_DAC2
[ 8.271214] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
[ 8.271221] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 8.292484] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
[ 8.292561] ipw2100 0000:02:03.0: firmware: failed to load ipw2100-1.3.fw (-2)
[ 8.292610] ipw2100 0000:02:03.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[ 8.292619] ipw2100 0000:02:03.0: Falling back to user helper
[ 8.400249] [drm] fb mappable at 0xE8040000
[ 8.400260] [drm] vram apper at 0xE8000000
[ 8.400265] [drm] size 786432
[ 8.400271] [drm] fb depth is 8
[ 8.400275] [drm] pitch is 1024
[ 8.400699] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 8.509636] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[ 8.515754] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[ 8.515764] radeon 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
[ 8.521322] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.37.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[ 8.529025] ipw2100: eth%d: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
[ 8.529107] ipw2100: eth%d: Failed to power on the adapter.
[ 8.529174] ipw2100: eth%d: Failed to start the firmware.
[ 8.529932] ipw2100 0000:02:03.0: Driver probe function unexpectedly returned 1
