Bug#546213: severity of 546213 is normal
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:19:52AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:12:06 +0200
> Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:01:45PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > This sounds an awful lot like a firmware bug, as well (for which we
> > > don't have the source code for).
> > >
> > > Perhaps you could try downgrading your firmware-iwlwifi package and
> > > let us know whether that fixes the issue? It sounds like the
> > > driver itself is doing the right thing by detecting a firmware
> > > problem and reloading.
> >
> > Hmm. No, I haven't yet considered this. The thing is: The driver and
> > the firmware work flawless in 2.6.29, so I guess that this might be a
> > firmware problem, but more likely the driver changed since then and
> > doesn't work with the firmware anymore. But AFAICT there were new
> > release..
>
> So you've verified that you were using the same version of
> firmware-iwlwifi with 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 then, yes?
I thought so, but currently I don't have a working kernel image (as I
reinstalled for some other reasons a while ago) for
2.6.29 to verify that my memory is correct. However I found that
bug #548749, which suggests that it might be a firmware bug
nevertheless, so I'll give *that* a try. Should have tried that first.
Best Regards,
Patrick
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