Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Gerlof Fokkema <gerlof.fokkema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Emmanuel, > > First of all, thanks for your previous reply. > I'm glad the issue is known and being looked at. > > Recently I tried linux kernel 3.18.2 on Arch linux and had the same > issues I previously mentioned. > Is there any bug report on this I can follow or any other way to be updated? > This should help: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers.git/commit/?id=4e6c48e0984e28d064ee8fbc292aee7b7920c507 > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sorry for the delay. This one got lost in my inbox. >> >> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Gerlof Fokkema >> <gerlof.fokkema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Since a few weeks I own a laptop with an Intel Wireless 7260 wireless adapter. >>> I first noticed that my connection started dropping when I transferred >>> large files over WiFi. >>> Later on I noticed this problem when the signal strength was low as well. >>> >>> I seem to be experiencing the bug described here: >>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56581 >> >> This bug relates to dvm - which is de-facto another driver. We made >> this work around because >> of firmware issues. These issues aren't supposed to happen on devices >> supported by iwlmvm. >> Obviously, they do. You are not the only one to report this issue. >> I will discuss it with our firmware team. >> >>> >>> However, if I read the changelogs correctly, this should've been fixed >>> in 3.17.3. >>> >>> Atttached you'll find dmesg.log with the error. >>> Excerpt: >>> [ 152.941067] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: fail to flush all tx fifo queues Q 2 >>> [ 152.941072] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Current SW read_ptr 209 write_ptr 234 >>> [ 152.941097] iwl data: 00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >>> 00 00 00 00 ................ >>> [ 152.941111] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: FH TRBs(0) = 0x80003000 >>> [ 152.941125] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: FH TRBs(1) = 0xc01100f2 >>> [ 152.941139] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: FH TRBs(2) = 0x00000000 >>> When I try reconnecting to WiFi I get dozens more of those errors. >>> >>> Can someone point me in the right direction for this? >>> Is there already a bugreport for this on kernel 3.17.6? >>> Should you need more information, I'm happy to supply. >>> >>> For now I've reverted to 3.16.4, since it seems to work better... >> >> Probably because 3.16 uses an older firmware (-9.ucode). >> This is also an interesting input - although I heard complaints about >> this very same issue on -9.ucode as well. >> >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Gerlof Fokkema -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
