Re: [iwl4965] Microcode SW error detected

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 15:11 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:50:53PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 09:09 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > > What is your configuration (mode,
> > > encryption, do you use wpa_supplicant or NetworkManager, which version,
> > > etc ...)?
> > 
> > 0) Mode as is displayed in iwconfig output? That is "Managed".
> > 
> > 1) Encryption is wep (so, no wpa_supplicant).
> > 
> > 2) Currently using NetworkManager-0.8.4-1.fc14.x86_64.
> 
> I try to use WEP with one AP, no microcode errors. However with different
> NetworkManager version, not sure if it is important. I'll try lately on F-14. 
> What channel do you use? Is network 11n or 11g or mixed ? WEP is 40 bits or
> other?

If it makes a difference, NM 0.8.x uses only the 'wext' supplicant
driver and uses wpa_supplicant 0.6.x.  NM still requests periodic scans
about every 2 minutes as usual.

(F15+, ie NM 0.9, uses "nl80211,wext" and supplicant 0.7.3+git)

Dan

> > > I will try to reproduce locally. If I'll be not able to reproduce,
> > > I'll ask you for debug logs on broken, and working (i.e. 2.6.38) version
> > > for compare.
> > 
> > 3) Sure, no problem. But isn't 2.6.38 from before the iwlegacy split?
> Yes, it is. If the problem was introduced during driver split (that
> happen in 2.6.39), one way to find a fix would be compare driver
> behaviour before the split and after.
> 
> Stanislaw
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