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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 usual |
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>>> 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 that |
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> can work as a module :-) Some more info I omitted from the original 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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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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> As far as I can tell, everything I should have done according to that page and |
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> to http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Iwlwifi has been done. |
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> Working purely from a techie's gut feel here (i.e. no evidence whatsoever), |
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> this behaviour looks like what I might get from the following circumstances: |
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> - a register in the card is not being properly initialised by the firmware, |
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> sometimes a bit is 0 sometimes a 1 at random and the results are not |
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> determined |
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> - there's a module option that I missed when reading the source comments |
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> - a weird race condition at early boot, results are pot-luck |
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> - my hardware is busted |
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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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-- |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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The idea is to die young as late as possible. |
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-- Ashley Montague |
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