On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 23:05 +0200, Wouter Cloetens wrote: > Package: firmware-iwlwifi > Version: 0.18 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > > Firmware iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode version 228.61.2.24 in firmware-iwlwifi 0.18 > renders the wlan interface unusable. After a couple of minutes, the > following message appears in syslog: > > iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000000. > > .... after which no packets can be sent, though the interface appears up. > Simply restarting the interface brings it up again. > > Downgrading to 0.17 with firmware 228.57.2.23 solves the problem for me. > However, since 0.18 is already in squeeze, that version was hard to track > down. I found it in lenny-backports ultimately: > > http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_0.17~bpo50+1_all.deb > > Googling this problem turns up hits in every distribution imaginable. > Other Debian bugs that are possibly related are 546213 and 548749. > Allegedly Ubunty Karmic Koala fixes the problem, however, package > linux-firmware_1.21_all.deb also contains 228.61.2.24. A combination of > kernel driver and firmware version perhaps? [...] Presumably it was. Has this been fixed by a kernel upgrade? Is it still a problem in the current stable release (Debian 6.0.3)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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