Hi all,
I write to start a discussion about the state of the mwifiex driver.
For over two years many other and me wait that the driver finally
becomes "stable". However, even with kernel 4.14.2 it still fails after
some minutes, or latest after some hours. With various stray errors in
the system log:
Dec 5 09:50:50 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info:
MWIFIEX VERSION: mwifiex 1.0 (15.68.7.p119)
Dec 5 09:50:50 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0:
driver_version = mwifiex 1.0 (15.68.7.p119)
Dec 5 10:38:28 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: trying
to associate to 'XXX' bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Dec 5 10:38:28 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info:
associated to bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx successfully
...
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: Firmware
wakeup failed
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PREP_CMD: FW
in reset state
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PREP_CMD:
card is removed
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: deleting the
crypto keys
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PREP_CMD:
card is removed
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: deleting the
crypto keys
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PREP_CMD:
card is removed
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: deleting the
crypto keys
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PREP_CMD:
card is removed
Dec 5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: deleting the
crypto keys
Also, rmmod usually then hangs, and even if it eventually force unloads
and such re-loading the module does not even get it back into some
working state. Not even with echoing 1 into the pci reset file.
If this firmware and driver is already for years not working very
stable, can this not at least recover more gracefully?
Any suggestions how to finally address and solve these issues are welcome.
If someone needs more logs and debug fluff let me know to generate it as
necessary.
For what it is worth, at least the USB attached mwifi chip in the
Surface 2 appears to work more reliable with the Linux driver.
Best regards,
René Rebe
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René Rebe, ExactCODE GmbH, Lietzenburger Str. 42, DE-10117 Berlin
http://exactcode.com | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de
