Hello misc@, I have an X31 laptop (pre-Lenovo Thinkpad), which has an IPW 2100 wireless chip in it. I can generally associate with any AP, and make good use of the network, but occasionally the interface goes down with 'fatal firmware error' showing up in the log. This used to happen especially when there was relatively heavy network usage (ftp, scp, etc.), but since I could bring it back up fairly easily with ifconfig (ifstated would take care of running dhclient and so on), I didn't bother to investigate.
Now a few days ago I upgraded to a recent snapshot (Sep. 1), which included these changes to ipw(4): http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121982946529192&w=2 (Aug. 27) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=121993450312938&w=2 (Aug. 28) Since then things suddenly became much worse. The interface now goes down every 10 minutes on average, regardless of activity, with more error messages: Sep 9 17:37:25 vladek /bsd: ipw0: fatal firmware error Sep 9 17:37:26 vladek /bsd: ipw0: timeout waiting for disabled state Sep 9 17:37:26 vladek /bsd: ipw0: association failed (error=35) Sep 9 17:37:27 vladek /bsd: ipw0: scan request failed (error=35) Sep 9 17:37:58 vladek last message repeated 31 times Not only that, it no longer helps to just bring it back up. I have to rescan (ifconfig -M) or it would just hang there, and never find the AP. If I try scanning without bringing it up first, it does show the APs found, but then goes down again immediately with the same error messages. I've tried this with several cheap wireless routers (Belkin, TP-Link, etc.), all without WEP or WPA, just plain radio. Note, this is without the most recent commit to ipw(4) (and iwi(4)) from Sep. 3: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=122047154210851&w=2 Thank you, and thanks to Demien Bergamini for making it possible to use this device in the first place. Ido. Here's my dmesg: OpenBSD 4.4-current (GENERIC) #1037: Mon Sep 1 13:47:20 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.40 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,SBF,EST,TM2 real mem = 535785472 (510MB) avail mem = 509640704 (486MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 09/22/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd750, SMBIOS rev. 2.33 @ 0xe0010 (57 entries) bios0: vendor IBM version "1QET97WW (3.02 )" date 09/22/2005 bios0: IBM 2672C8G apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: battery life expectancy 100% apm0: AC on, battery charge high acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd6e0/0x920 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdea0/272 (15 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #6 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000 0xd0000/0x1000 0xd1000/0x1000 0xe0000/0x10000 cpu0 at mainbus0 cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1400 MHz (1484 mV): speeds: 1400, 1200, 1000, 800, 600 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82855PM Host" rev 0x03 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82855PM AGP" rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) agp0 at vga1: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x81 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 cbb0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Ricoh 5C476 CardBus" rev 0xaa: irq 11 cbb1 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "Ricoh 5C476 CardBus" rev 0xaa: irq 11 "Ricoh 5C552 Firewire" rev 0x02 at pci2 dev 0 function 2 not configured ipw0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100" rev 0x04: irq 11, address 00:04:23:5b:c8:21 fxp0 at pci2 dev 8 function 0 "Intel PRO/100 VE" rev 0x81, i82562: irq 11, address 00:09:6b:fa:a5:ee inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82562ET 10/100 PHY, rev. 0 cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0 cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0xb0 pcmcia0 at cardslot0 cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0 cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 6 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0xb0 pcmcia1 at cardslot1 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801DBM LPC" rev 0x01: 24-bit timer at 3579545Hz pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801DBM IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SAMSUNG HM060HC> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 57241MB, 117231408 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801DB SMBus" rev 0x01: irq 11 iic0 at ichiic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 256MB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC2100CL2.5 spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 256MB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC2700CL2.5 auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801DB AC97" rev 0x01: irq 11, ICH4 AC97 ac97: codec id 0x41445374 (Analog Devices AD1981B) ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo audio0 at auich0 "Intel 82801DB Modem" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 not configured usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt2 at isa0 port 0x3bc/4: polled npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 biomask ffe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffff mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhidev0 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" rev 2.00/11.10 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
