On 03/30/2010 05:01 PM, reinette chatre wrote: > Hi Larry, > > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 12:56 -0700, Larry Finger wrote: >> His problem is that the wireless keeps getting a microcode error and is dropping >> and remaking the connection about every 40 seconds. It logs the following: > > How severe is the impact of this restart? Does "remake the connection" > mean that a reassociation is needed? > >> [ 652.749175] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting >> 0x2000000. >> [ 652.749201] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump: >> [ 652.749207] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Status: 0x000212E4, count: 5 >> [ 652.749346] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: Desc Time >> data1 data2 line >> [ 652.749356] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: NMI_INTERRUPT_WDG (#04) >> 1197632519 0x00000002 0x07030000 3664 >> [ 652.749361] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: blink1 blink2 ilink1 ilink2 >> [ 652.749367] iwlagn 0000:04:00.0: 0x005AA 0x006E8 0x008B2 0x0CF76 > > This is the firmware watchdog timer kicking in because something is > hanging in firmware or maybe just talking too long. Unfortunately quite > a few of these have been popping up recently, so far I have recorded six > bug reports with the same line number you are reporting here. > > You could try the patches accompanying > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15374 ... that will not make > the firmware error go away, but should help with cleanup when it does > occur and hopefully enable the connection to recover without user > noticing ... although I am not sure about that if this error is hit so > often. >From what I see in the git log for mainline 2.6.34, these patches are already there. If that is correct, the OP's problem should go away as I think the next Milestone release of openSUSE should switch to 2.6.34-rcX. Thanks for the response. Larry -- 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
