Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 dmesg error

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 04:45:29PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez squawked:
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> Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote:
> > Marco Calviani wrote:
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> >>>Hi list,
> >>>  i'm running gentoo on a laptop with a ipw2200 wireless card. I'm
> >>>running the current ipw2200 stable version, that is ipw2200-1.0.8-r1.
> >>>It is running well but when used i'm seeing in the kernel messages the
> >>>following messages:
> >>>
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> >>>ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >>>
> >>>Is this a known issue of these drivers?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks in advance,
> >>>MC
> >>>

I remember seeing that with older versions of ipw2200, didn't see it
with a not very recent version, and am seeing the one below with the
current ~x86 ones. (I think the one that worked was ipw2200 1.0.2 with
firmware 2.3, I don't have my laptop handy to check.)

The problem, it seems, has been reported:
 For 1.0.8 http://www.bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=853
 For 1.0.10 http://www.bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=888

To summarize: setting hwcrypt=0 makes connection slightly more stable;
though the firmware error still exists, the connection usually won't
be dropped. And by personal anecdote of the bug reporter, 1.0.10
'seems' to have fewer firmware errors, FWIW.

HTH,

W

> Sorry I did a dmesg and that message shows for me too... but less times....
>
> geo@gentoobox ~ $ dmesg | grep ipw2200
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.10
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
>
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