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Re: iwlagn is getting even worse with 3.3-rc1

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 02:37, Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Emmanuel,
>
> sorry to come back soo late to that matter ... I was *really* busy
> with real work.
>
> On Do, 26 Jan 2012, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fr, 27 Jan 2012, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > >> First tests are promising, after reboot it was working immediately
> > >> without need to rfkill block/unblock. lso after suspend and resume.
> > >>
> > >> Will test more the next days and report back.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, at the university it is still a complete no-go.
> > > Usually the connection works for a short time, then breaks down.
> > > After that even unloading and loading the module did not reactivate
> > > it, I cannot get a connection at all. But other units, or with
> > > older kernel (it was 2.6.3X AFAIR) it was working without a glitch.
> > >
> > > I uploaded a syslog output including kernel and network manager logs
> > > to
> > >        http://www.logic.at/people/preining/syslog.log
> > > (new one). This shows a session from loading the module up to giving
> > > up.
> > >
> >
> > I glanced at the logs, and they look healthy from the wifi driver
> > side. You just don't get any reply to DHCP_DISCOVER apparently... can
> > you get a sniffer ?
> > I am pretty sure that the packet in sent in the air, but if you can
> > get a capture of that we could check that out.
>
> I still see that, on 3.3-rc4, and it is the same as usual. The interface
> believes it is up and connected, but nothing works.
>
> I am *100%* sure that this is related to the driver, because in old
> revisions (somewhen around 2.6.27 or so) it was working without
> any problem, and when it started I reported it long time ago.
>
> Anyway, today it was really hopeless again, and the exact time it always
> hangs is when the kernel driver spits out:
>        Rx A-MPDU request on tid 0 result 0
> and with debugging on I get in addition:
>        ieee80211 phy3: release an RX reorder frame due to timeout on
> earlier frames
> that is where it all goes down the gully, without any reaction from the
> outside world suddenly. Before ping was running, then off.
>
> I uploaded a new syslog.log in the above location that shows 5 min
> or so of trial and error.

>From the log, I can see that we have a lot of "passive channel
failures". Can you try to disable 11n (module_parameter) ?
Please also try with debug=0xc0000000
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