RE: iwlagn and many firmware restarts with Fedora kernel

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Wey,

> so during the last few weeks, I have seen a huge amount of firmware
> restarts with my Intel 5350 card and Fedora 13 kernel (2.6.33.6-147).
> 
> iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: low ack count detected, restart firmware
> iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: On demand firmware reload
> iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Stopping AGG while state not ON or starting
> iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: queue number out of range: 0, must be 10 to 19
> 
> If this happens then I don't see it once, I normally see this 10-20
> times and the connectivity is stalled until the cards comes back to
> life. I have seen patches that should have fixed this symptom, but they
> might be also send to -stable since this is a major hassle.
> 
> The time without connectivity is something around 4-5 minutes or longer
> when this happens. Not really funny.
> 
> Which patch you referring to? I will try to work on submit it to stable.

no patch in particular, I just have seen some commit messages that would
be indicating this got fixed.

Regards

Marcel