Hello, ever since I got this ThinkPad T420, I've been having strange issues, which I figured are caused by the iwlwifi driver. What happens is that when I'm connected to a WPA enterprise (not PSK) access point, sooner or later things start crashing -- sometimes the web browser goes down, and when I run some heavy task like kernel compilation, I can be almost sure it will fail. Some more information is provided by other people in this launchpad ticket: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/815148 I'm not a Ubuntu user, though, I'm running Debian with upstream kernels I compile myself, and the issue still persists. I was able to reproduce it with 3.0.0 from Debian package, with upstream 3.0.4, with 3.1 and even with todays davem/net-next merged into 3.1 (didn't try current Linus' tree, but that I guess might be unnecessary). Also, I tried two versions of uCode: 17.168.5.1 from Debian package and 17.168.5.3 from the intellinuxwireless webpage. None helps. My reproduction steps are a bit different from what's in that launchpad ticket, so I spell them here: 1. Connect to a WPA-EAP (enterprise) network. 2. Do some networking (torrent is a safe bet). 3. Run make -j4 on the kernel tree. 4. Wait until the compiler reports an internal error, segfaults, or does some other weird thing it shouldn't do. 5. When this happens, things start to really go crazy -- if you for example run 10 gccs in parallel again and again, and continue to do some networking, it will fail every few seconds. Disconnecting from the network and connecting again brings you to step 4 again, having to wait until something somewhere goes wrong and thing start crashing. Step 4 is a bit tricky and might sometimes take more than an hour (causing you to repeat step 3). I've had great success accelerating it by telling my friends that I just found a configuration which seems to work okay. This, however, might not really help you reproduce the issue, but it did save me a couple of tenminutes, I am sure. Is there anything I can do to track this down? Perhaps try some experimental uCode or something? Thanks, -- Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/ -- 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
