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I am having a very irritating problem with the wireless driver and card |
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above. Sometimes, but not all the times, it gets into this phase where |
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the wireless drops, comes back, drops, comes back (etc) and eventually I |
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start seeing this in kernel logs: |
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ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. |
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Unloading and reloading the module does not stop the issue, when it has |
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begun. I have done some searching, and the typical advice is to make |
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sure hardware crypto is off, by loading it like so: |
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modprobe -v ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 |
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However this never stops it, or even causes it to calm down a bit. |
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The most frustrating thing, is that this does not happen all the time. I |
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use multiple wireless networks. All of them wide open, except for one, |
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which was mine at home with WPA. That AP since bricked (warning: avoid |
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LInksys WRT54G v5's, i'm not the only one this happened to) so I can no |
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loner test. But when I used it, i saw the same things as I am describing |
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here. |
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Software and Hardware information: |
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IBM Thinkpad T43 |
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Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g |
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Kernel 2.6.18.1-ifc (ifc is a very small intel fan control patch) |
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ipw2200-1.2.0 |
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ipw2200-firmware-3.0 |
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wpa_supplicant-0.5.5 |
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Any ideas out there? I have talked to others who have seen this, and |
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none of them ever solved it... |
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Gentoo Specific Information (some of this may be useful to others too) |
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Portage 2.1.2_pre3-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, |
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glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18.1-ifc i686) |
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================================================================= |
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System uname: 2.6.18.1-ifc i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz |
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Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 |
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Last Sync: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:20:01 +0000 |
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distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) |
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[enabled] |
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ccache version 2.3 [enabled] |
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app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] |
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dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 |
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dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 |
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dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 |
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dev-util/ccache: 2.3 |
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dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] |
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sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 |
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sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 |
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sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 |
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sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 |
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sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 |
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sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 |
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virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 |
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" |
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AUTOCLEAN="yes" |
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CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" |
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CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" |
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CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" |
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CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/3.5/env |
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/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb |
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/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ |
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/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ |
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/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" |
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CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf |
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/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" |
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CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" |
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DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" |
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FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox |
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sfperms strict" |
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GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ |
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ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo |
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http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" |
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LINGUAS="en" |
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MAKEOPTS="-j5" |
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PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" |
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PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times |
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--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats |
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--timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" |
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PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" |
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PORTDIR="/usr/portage" |
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PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" |
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SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" |
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USE="x86 3dnow X a52 alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr chroot cli |
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cracklib crypt dbus dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc |
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emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk |
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gtk2 hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse |
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input_devices_synaptics isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux |
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libg++ linguas_en mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl |
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nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd pwdb python |
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qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg |
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theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb |
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userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon vorbis |
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win32codecs xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib" |
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Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, |
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LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS |
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