Bug#556585: iwlagn gone bananas after a couple of hours

[Alexandre Fournier <brutus@free.fr>]

Quoting maximilian attems <max@stro.at>:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:08:46AM +0100, Alexandre Fournier wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686
> > Version: 2.6.30-8
> >
> > This happened on a lenovo x300 using the squeeze distro, I suddendly lost
> the
> > connectivity for the wireless card. I tried to reload iwlagn to no avail.
> > Everything seems to be fine on reboot, though
> >
>
> what firmware version are you using and please try out 2.6.31 from
> unstable?
>

I use the firmware version provided by the debian squeeze package:

apt-cache show firmware-iwlwifi | grep "Version\|4965"
Version: 0.18
Description: Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 4965 and 5000-series cards
 This package contains the binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 4965,
  * Intel Wireless 4965 firmware, version 228.57.1.21
  * Intel Wireless 4965 firmware, version 228.61.2.24


About which version really gets loaded:
[   12.983331] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
[   13.016724] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.61.2.24


I can try the kernel unstable version. however:
 - maybe I didn't stress enough that I only experienced this bug once.
 - should I also upgrade the firmware-iwlwifi package ?


Regards,

A. Fournier


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