https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174589 The ipw driver sometimes takes a long time to load its firmware. Whilst the ipw driver should be using the async interface of the firmware loader to make this a non-issue, this is a minimal fix. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/base/firmware_class.c~ 2005-12-01 16:56:29.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/base/firmware_class.c 2005-12-01 16:56:35.000000000 -0500 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ enum { FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG, }; -static int loading_timeout = 10; /* In seconds */ +static int loading_timeout = 60; /* In seconds */ /* fw_lock could be moved to 'struct firmware_priv' but since it is just * guarding for corner cases a global lock should be OK */