From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:41717 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801Ab1FGGeO (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 02:34:14 -0400 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so3907933bwz.19 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:34:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Bernhard Schmidt Reply-To: bschmidt@freebsd.org To: Paul Bolle Subject: Re: [iwl4965] Microcode SW error detected Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 08:32:48 +0200 Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <1306151106.2066.60.camel@x61.thuisdomein> In-Reply-To: <1306151106.2066.60.camel@x61.thuisdomein> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <201106070832.49048.bschmidt@freebsd.org> (sfid-20110607_083418_701268_FE7C7FCE) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday, May 23, 2011 13:45:06 Paul Bolle wrote: > 0) Since I started running (release candidates of) kernel v2.6.39 errors > like these show up in my log, every now and then: > > iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000000. > iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 228.61.2.24 > iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump: > iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: Status: 0x000213E4, count: 5 > iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: Desc Time data1 data2 line > iwl4965 0000:03:00.0: FH_ERROR (0x000C) 1821446380 0x00000008 0x03130000 208 On a unrelated site note, I have a case where I can trigger a FH_ERROR at this line 100% reliably. Not on Linux though.. While being associated to a 5GHz BSS doing a scan chan by chan (instead of all at once) is enough to trigger it. A workaround is too not send probe requests for 2GHz channels at 1Mbps (CCK flag) but at 6Mbps instead. Maybe this bug report [1] is related too? [1] http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1965 -- Bernhard