On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 18:35 +0200, Wouter Cloetens wrote:
> On 04/07/11 04:51, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 23:05 +0200, Wouter Cloetens wrote:
> >> 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)?
>
> I just upgraded to firmware-iwlwifi 0.30. This contains the same buggy
> firmware release 228.61.2.24 as in 0.18.
> I'm now running the kernel from linux-image-2.6.38-2-686.
> Sure enough, a couple of minutes after unloading and reloading the
> iwlagn module:
[...]
> However, it recovered from that by itself, and after that initial dump,
> my wlan connection has remained stable. It may be unrelated to this bug.
So it sounds like the driver now avoids doing whatever it is that
crashes the firmware (at least, mostly).
I would like to reassign this to the kernel and consider it fixed by the
new version. But I also want to know this is fixed in the stable
release (Debian 6.0.3, package version 2.6.32-35). Can you test that,
please?
> Over the last two years, this bug has been discussed thousands of times
> in the forums and bug tracking tools of every distribution out there.
> Most people are just using old firmware, like I have been.
>
> Some people have had success setting this module option:
> swcrypto=1
> which disables offloading encryption to the hardware. That doesn't
> always solve the problem, apparently, or at least not permanently.
I doubt that there is only *one* bug in the firmware!
> I will keep running with this firmware version and report if it breaks
> after longer use.
Thank you.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
- John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987
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