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On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 18:22 -0800, reinette chatre wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:09 -0800, Jan Schneider wrote:
> > Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > Zitat von reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > >> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 03:19 -0800, Jan Schneider wrote:
> > >>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Zitat von Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Jan Schneider <jan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>>>>> Zitat von reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 14:31 -0800, Jan Schneider wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> I've seen in a post from January that someone already had
> > >>>>>>>>> this problem
> > >>>>>>>>> but couldn't reproduce it.
> > >>>>>>>>> I can't reliably reproduce, but I see this more often than I like.
> > >>>>>>>>> When this happens, it usually doesn't help to reload the kernel
> > >>>>>>>>> module. Sometimes it helps to use the rfkill switch though.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> Here's a log with debug=0x43fff:
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> It does not seem as though your driver is compiled with debug support.
> > >>>>>>>> You can confirm that by looking at the version number of the driver
> > >>>>>>>> printed when it loads ... it should have a "d" in it like "1.2.26kds".
> > >>>>>>>> Could you please recompile the driver with debug support
> > >>>>>>>> (IWLWIFI_DEBUG)
> > >>>>>>>> and rerun your test?  This will provide us with a complete
> > >>>>>>>> event log of
> > >>>>>>>> the uCode error.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Enabling debug didn't help:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Feb  7 00:04:40 tank kernel: [ 2769.084395] iwlagn: Intel(R)
> > >>>>>>> Wireless WiFi
> > >>>>>>> Link
> > >>>>>>> AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27kds
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> /etc/modprobe.d/iwlagn:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> options iwlagn debug=0x43fff
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> I still get:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Feb  8 18:40:53 tank kernel: [77584.979829] iwlagn
> > >>>>>>> 0000:0c:00.0: Microcode
> > >>>>>>> SW er
> > >>>>>>> ror detected.  Restarting 0x2000000.
> > >>>>>>> Feb  8 18:40:53 tank kernel: [77585.029747] Registered led device:
> > >>>>>>> iwl-phy0::rad
> > >>>>>>> io
> > >>>>>>> Feb  8 18:40:53 tank kernel: [77585.030765] Registered led device:
> > >>>>>>> iwl-phy0::ass
> > >>>>>>> oc
> > >>>>>>> Feb  8 18:40:53 tank kernel: [77585.031602] Registered led device:
> > >>>>>>> iwl-phy0::RX
> > >>>>>>> Feb  8 18:40:53 tank kernel: [77585.032467] Registered led device:
> > >>>>>>> iwl-phy0::TX
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> No - enable IWLWIFI_DEBUG in your kernel config, then rebuild the
> > >>>>>> kernel (or at least the iwlwifi modules).
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> That's what I did, see the "d" in "1.2.26kds" above.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Eh, that was the wrong citation of course. But it's still a "d" in
> > >>>> "1.3.27kds".
> > >>>
> > >>> Anything else I can try to provide more information?
> > >>
> > >> Which hardware are you running? If it is a member of the 5k series then
> > >> you need to use the debug50 parameter.
> > >
> > > Yeah, it is, a 5300. I'll try that and get back to you.
> > 
> > Now, this was was fun. I was just reading this mailing list, wondering
> > why the driver still didn't crashed. When I left this mail folder, it
> > happened. :-) Did anybody sneak some semantic analysis into the latest
> > code? ;-) And how it crashed! I had to reboot and it keeps crashing
> > now after a few seconds activity at most.
> > 
> > Anyway, here is the log, I hope the attachment makes it to the list.
> > If you need more, I have more, but I figured this should contain all
> > important information.
> 
> Thank you very much for this log. Do you perhaps have a log that shows a
> bit what is going on _before_ the SYSASSERT occurs? 
> 
> I passed this log on to our hardware folks for some information. At this
> time, please consider opening a bug in
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/ with your debug logs.
> 

I got an answer back promptly because you encountered a problem that was
fixed recently. Could you please try with the latest wireless-testing?
Patch f50f70bb8d10fa407d7d0e6f4421b928f62357e3 "iwlwifi: fix FAT channel
config for 5000 series" should fix this problem.

Reinette

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