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From: Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ilw@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: Centrino Advanced-N 6235 - Microcode SW error detected
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:48:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518461327.30914.17.camel@coelho.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180130194926.lg3grfffcsruiz4j@pali>

On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 20:49 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Pali,


> for almost 3 years I have a problem with Intel wifi card Centrino
> Advanced-N 6235. Its firmware periodically crash and in dmesg I'm
> seeing
> a message "Microcode SW error detected".
> 
> Problem happens independently of kernel versions (I tried 3.8, 3.13,
> 3.18, 4.0, 4.9). Currently I'm using Debian Stretch and its 4.9
> version.
> 
> This wifi card is identified as:
> 
> $ lspci -s 03:00.0 -vv
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 (rev 24)
>         Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 AGN

[...]

> And here is example of dmesg error flood:
> 
> [26624.998823] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x2000000.

[...]

> [26624.999013] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 18.168.6.1
> [26624.999117] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
> [26624.999118] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Status: 0x000002CC, count: 6
> [26624.999120] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x000028AA | ADVANCED_SYSASSERT          
> [27464.823779] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 18.168.6.1
> [27464.823903] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
> [27464.823904] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Status: 0x000002CC, count: 6
> [27464.823906] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x000028AA | ADVANCED_SYSASSERT          

[...]

> This really looks like firmware problem. What can I do with these
> microcode errors? Can you help me?

Yes, this is a firmware problem.  But unfortunately this is a really
old hardware (6 years old) and we don't support the firmware anymore. 
I'm sorry, but there is really nothing we can do.

I hope the driver manages to recover properly and WiFi continues to
work on your machine without much disturbance when this happens.

--
Cheers,
Luca.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-30 19:49 Centrino Advanced-N 6235 - Microcode SW error detected Pali Rohár
2018-02-12 18:48 ` Luca Coelho [this message]
2018-02-12 18:52   ` Pali Rohár
2018-02-12 20:01     ` Luca Coelho

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