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RE: iwl3945 problem with 2.6.25-rc9

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On Wednesday 16 April 2008 19:28 in
<D936D925018D154694D8A362EEB08920043535A1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chatre, Reinette wrote:

> On , Marcus Furlong  wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Have had a look through bugzilla and not sure if any of the
>> existing bugs
>> are exactly the same as mine, so thought I'd post here first
>> to make sure
>> I'm not missing anything obvious.
>> 
>> Kernel 2.6.25-rc9 (although the same thing seems to happen on 2.6.24
>> kernels, so I stuck with the ipw driver and 2.6.23 til now)
>> Using iwl3945 firmware 2.14.1.5
>> 
>> Machine doesn't associate with any AP (although it does seem to see
>> the closer ones) and I get lots of the following errors:
>> 
>> iwl3945: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x82000008.
>> 
>> Also, and unsure if this is related or not, the mouse and
>> keyboard behave
>> erratically when the iwl3945 module is loaded. Both keyboard
>> and mouse lock
>> up, but store all input in a buffer and spurt it out after a
>> few seconds.
>> After between 1-10 minutes the machine hangs and the Caps Lock
>> and Scroll
>> Lock lights flash on and off (not the Num Lock one though).
>> 
>> Dmesg log is available here using netconsole on a wired
>> connection, up to
>> the point where it crashes:
>> 
>> https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~furlongm/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-output.bz2
>> 
>> I also reloaded the module with debug=0x43ffb after booting,
>> so the output
>> becomes more verbose at that stage.
> 
> Looks like the device is being brought up and down a lot ... are you
> perhaps running wpa_supplicant or some other user application that is
> doing this? Could you please give more information about what you were
> doing when these errors started to appear?

Yes, wpa_supplicant is running as part of the boot process. Should I use
some other application? (Do wireless-tools support WPA?) Or should I just
load the module on it's own and give the dmesg output from that?

Marcus.

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