Re: 2.6.30-rc1: intel 3945 no wireless

[Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>]

Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> (cc linux-wireless)
>> 
>> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:36:48 -0700 Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Decided to test out .30-rc1, but I've run into some bugs.
>>> My intel 3945 wireless card doesn't work. Bellow is the relevant 
>>> portions of dmesg
>>> The full dmesg and config can be found at: 
>>> http://jdserver.homelinux.org/bugreports/003/
>>>
>>> iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for 
>>> Linux, 1.2.26ks
>>> iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
>>> iwl3945 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
>>> iwl3945 0000:0b:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>>> input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as 
>>> /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
>>> iwl3945 0000:0b:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
>>> iwl3945 0000:0b:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
>>>   alloc irq_desc for 26 on cpu 0 node 0
>>>   alloc kstat_irqs on cpu 0 node 0
>>> iwl3945 0000:0b:00.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
>>> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
>>> input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Right Jack as 
>>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input7
>>> input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Right Jack as 
>>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input8
>>> phy0: Failed to initialize wep: -2
>>> iwl3945 0000:0b:00.0: Failed to register hw (error -2)
>>> iwl3945 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
>>> iwl3945: probe of 0000:0b:00.0 failed with error -2
>>>
>> 
>> I assume this is a regression?  2.6.29 was OK?
>
> See the discussion in the thread containing
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123922531327539&w=2. This one also contains
> the fix that was accepted by Rusty Russell.

i have the same problem. 2.6.29 was fine, 2.6.30-rc1 doesn't work. i
tried applying the above mentioned patch but it didn't make any
difference. at any rate, i have iwl3945 compiled in the kernel and not
as a module and i don't use wep. this is the relevant part from syslog:

iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.28.2.8
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
wlan0: authenticate with AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
wlan0: authenticate with AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000008.
iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Error Reply type 0x00000005 cmd REPLY_PHY_CALIBRATION_CMD (0xB0) seq 0x013A ser 0x004E0000
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX
Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
wlan0: authenticate with AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
wlan0: authentication with AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX timed out

looking through the logs i also noticed this:

REISERFS warning (device sda4): jdm-20004 reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)

REISERFS warning (device sda4): jdm-20004 reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)

REISERFS warning (device sda2): jdm-20004 reiserfs_delete_xattrs: Couldn't delete all xattrs (-13)

--alex--


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