I'm interested in IFC patch. Where did you get it ? Thanks. Regards, Ovidiu
fire-eyes wrote: > I am having a very irritating problem with the wireless driver and > card above. Sometimes, but not all the times, it gets into this phase > where the wireless drops, comes back, drops, comes back (etc) and > eventually I start seeing this in kernel logs: > > ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. > > Unloading and reloading the module does not stop the issue, when it > has begun. I have done some searching, and the typical advice is to > make sure hardware crypto is off, by loading it like so: > > modprobe -v ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 > > However this never stops it, or even causes it to calm down a bit. > > The most frustrating thing, is that this does not happen all the time. > I use multiple wireless networks. All of them wide open, except for > one, which was mine at home with WPA. That AP since bricked (warning: > avoid LInksys WRT54G v5's, i'm not the only one this happened to) so I > can no loner test. But when I used it, i saw the same things as I am > describing here. > > Software and Hardware information: > IBM Thinkpad T43 > Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g > Kernel 2.6.18.1-ifc (ifc is a very small intel fan control patch) > ipw2200-1.2.0 > ipw2200-firmware-3.0 > wpa_supplicant-0.5.5 > > Any ideas out there? I have talked to others who have seen this, and > none of them ever solved it... > > Gentoo Specific Information (some of this may be useful to others too) > > Portage 2.1.2_pre3-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, > glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18.1-ifc i686) > ================================================================= > System uname: 2.6.18.1-ifc i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz > Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 > Last Sync: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:20:01 +0000 > distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port > 3632) [enabled] > ccache version 2.3 [enabled] > app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] > dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 > dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 > dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 > dev-util/ccache: 2.3 > dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] > sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 > sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 > sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 > sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 > sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 > sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 > virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" > AUTOCLEAN="yes" > CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/3.5/env > /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb > /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ > /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ > /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" > CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf > /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" > CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" > DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" > FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox > sfperms strict" > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ > ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo > http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"; > LINGUAS="en" > MAKEOPTS="-j5" > PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" > PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times > --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats > --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" > PORTDIR="/usr/portage" > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" > SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" > USE="x86 3dnow X a52 alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr chroot > cli cracklib crypt dbus dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds > elibc_glibc emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm > gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse > input_devices_synaptics isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux > libg++ linguas_en mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl > nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd pwdb python > qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl > svg theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb > userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon > vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib" > Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, > LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
