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On Thursday 18 September 2008 01:20:28 Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:32:21 Espen Hustad wrote: |
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> >> On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:03:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >>> Hi all, |
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> >>> I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an Intel IWL3945 wireless card. On |
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> >>> power-up/reboot it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I can find no |
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> >>> pattern at all, success does not depend on the machine being hot/cold |
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> >>> rebooted, powered up from shutdown, hibernate, suspend or any other |
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> >>> usual thing. I don't use the wireless-rf kill switch at all. |
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> > mac80211 is a module - I learned long ago to make as modules everything |
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> > that can work as a module :-) Some more info I omitted from the original |
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> > post: |
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> have you tried: |
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> - /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 stop |
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> - unload module |
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> - reload, continue ? |
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Tried that but it doesn't work. If I get that "power level message = -1" |
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message in dmesg, nothing works until I reboot/powercyle, then it's pot luck |
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if it'll start next time |
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> I have a precision M6300 with the iwl 4965, and all my problems can |
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> usually be solved the above way, although our two laptops are different. |
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> > the driver I use is the in-kernel iwl3945 (part of iwlwifi) |
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> > iwl3945-ucode is installed |
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> have you recompiled ucode since you last built the module? |
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Yes, but we can nuke that as a contributing factor - there's no compiling to |
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be down. The ebuild just unpacks a binary blob and moves it to /lib/firmware |
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> > But I've run out of ideas on how to falsify these theories :-( |
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> One answer to these questions is Winblows. If it works continuously |
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> there, then it's not your hw. Another option is reseating the mpci |
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> card, or even trying a different one. Otherwise try and match your |
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> kernel and ucode versions with someone who has it working... But I'm |
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> sure you've thought of that :) |
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Windows isn't feasible, but an Ubuntu LiveCD is :-) I'll spend some time |
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tonight after work cycling the machine enough times to get a decent record |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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