From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: borkage in 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:12:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20070901131248.GA4462@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070831211603.083dfed2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46D9352B.4060606@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, yi.zhu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46D9352B.4060606-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:47:23AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >Aug 31 20:58:07 sony kernel: ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. > I see this on my Sony Vaio with older, non-mm kernels too. Incredibly > frustrating, as it seems to be related to the phase of the moon. > Sometimes a reboot gets my wireless working, sometimes it doesn't. There have been a few random reports of firmware restarts with ipw2x00 for a long time. Unfortunately, only Intel has any visibility into that firmware. Do make sure you have the latest firmware released from Intel (you probably do already, but it's worth checking). Yi, any thoughts? John -- John W. Linville linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org