Bug#677880: iwlwifi: flakey and slow connection, high "invalid misc" count

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

Victor Pablos Ceruelo wrote:

> The wifi problem I reported has dissapear (it occurs once a week or so)
> after I upgraded the Lenovo W500 to 3.3.4-1~experimental.1
> and decided to install
>
> compat-wireless-3.4-rc3-1.tar.bz2
[...]
> At first it was an small improvement (it disconnected 2~3 times each hour)
> but then I played with options and with
>
> options iwlagn ack_check=1 fw_restart=1 11n_disable=1 bt_coex_active=0
> options iwlwifi ack_check=1 fw_restart=1 11n_disable=1 bt_coex_active=0
> options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU
>
> it now disconnects once or twice a week.

Thanks again for your work on this.

Please try a 3.4.y kernel (with the stock wireless drivers) from
experimental with (1) no special parameters and then (2) whatever
parameters seem appropriate to you and let us know the result of each.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan