Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting."

[Ovidiu Bivolaru]

I'm interested in IFC patch. Where did you get it ? Thanks.

Regards,
Ovidiu

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

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