Re: iwl3945 randomly crashes

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 17:24 +0100, Łukasz Walewski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using the latest Lubuntu 16.10 with fairly recent kernel
> 
> ljw@hideo:~$ uname -a
> Linux hideo 4.8.0-30-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 03:43:33 UTC
> 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> on an old Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro U200) equipped with an Intel
> PRO/Wireless 3945ABG adapter
> 
> ljw@hideo:~$ lspci | grep ireless
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
> 
> The wireless network crashes once in a while with no apparent reason
> with the following log entries:
> 
> Dec 18 17:23:42 hideo kernel: [94900.863133] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0:
> loaded firmware version 15.32.2.9
> Dec 18 17:23:42 hideo kernel: [94900.913626] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0:
> BSM uCode verification failed at addr 0x00003800+0 (of 900), is
> 0xa5a5a5a2, s/b 0xf802020
> Dec 18 17:23:42 hideo kernel: [94900.913633] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0:
> Unable to set up bootstrap uCode: -5
> 
> This problem has been reported several times on different mailing
> lists and community portals all over the Internet, nevertheless I was
> not able to locate the right fix for it.
> 
> The workaround suggested elswhere (restarting the network-manager
> when the problem occurs) works with my setup.

Instead of restarting NM, you can "pkill -TERM wpa_supplicant" or
something, which will do the same thing but just bounce the wifi rather
than everything.  Or 'rmmod iwl3945; modprobe iwl3945'.

Dan

> Could you please suggest the solution to the problem? Alternatively,
> where should I file the bug to get it fixed?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Lukasz Walewski
>