ibm x40 - after 2 weeks madwifi stopped working
hi
i compiled the cvs-code from http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/ around jan.
16th with kernel 2.6.10/debian-sid
and everything worked like a charm on my ibm x40. about 2 weeks later
wlan stopped working with the error msg below (though i didn't touch the
systems configuration). after removing and reinstalling the modules and
an apt-get dist-upgrade everything was fine again. yesterday the error
msg popped up while booting again and even "Try loading the module
ath_pci with the parameter:xchanmode=0" from the madwifi-faq (
http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm ) doesn't help.
help ? anyone?
kind regards
duncan
new while booting:
ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 2 (2417Mhz): 'Hardware
didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)
ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 4 (2427Mhz): 'Hardware
didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)
dmesg:
Linux version 2.6.10 (root@tengu) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-6))
#1 Wed Jan 19 19:58:38 CET 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f6e0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f6e0000 - 000000001f6f7000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f6f7000 - 000000001f6f9000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001f700000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
502MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 128736
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 124640 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1196.175 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 507200k/514944k available (1803k kernel code, 7324k reserved,
753k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 2367.48 BogoMIPS (lpj=1183744)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: a7e9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000180 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: a7e9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000180 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: After all inits, caps: a7e9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000180
00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz stepping 05
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8c8, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f7050
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xb6c4, dseg 0x400
PnPBIOS: 21 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 21 recorded by driver
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 01 [IRQ]
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 09 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/24cc] at 0000:00:1f.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:1f.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try
pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.2
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x1000-0x105f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x1060-0x107f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x1180-0x11bf has been reserved
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.1
pnp: Device 00:11 activated.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.2
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HITACHI_DK13FA-40B, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first
block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max
trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1)
ReiserFS: hda1: journal-1153: found in header: first_unflushed_offset
8180, last_flushed_trans_id 126211
ReiserFS: hda1: journal-1006: found valid transaction start offset
17179877364, len 125952 id -549141332
ReiserFS: hda1: journal-1206: Starting replay from offset
542076412370932, trans_id 1
ReiserFS: hda1: journal-1037: journal_read_transaction, offset
17179877364, len 170 mount_id 1024
ReiserFS: hda1: journal-1039: journal_read_trans skipping because 8180
is too old
ReiserFS: hda1: journal-1299: Setting newest_mount_id to 173
ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
Adding 976744k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
XFS mounting filesystem hda3
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda3
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.5.4-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:01.0
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.12.14 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212)
wlan: 0.8.4.5 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_rate_onoe: 1.0
ath_pci: 0.9.4.12 (EXPERIMENTAL)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:02.0
ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:05:4e:4a:15:d6
ath0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BE traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BK traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xd0200000, irq=11
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x1820
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x1840
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0x1860
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0
EHCI Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem 0xd0100000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct 2004
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
input: PC Speaker
irda_init()
NET: Registered protocol family 23
pnp: Device 00:15 activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
pnp: Device 00:15 disabled.
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 430M
agpgart: Detected 8060K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49471 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:00.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xff00)
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 2 (2417Mhz): 'Hardware
didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)
ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 4 (2427Mhz): 'Hardware
didn't respond as expected' (HAL status 3)
ifconfig:
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:4E:4A:15:D6
inet addr:192.168.36.12 Bcast:192.168.36.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::205:4eff:fe4a:15d6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Memory:e02c0000-e02d0000
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E4:2B:2D:5B
inet addr:192.168.36.11 Bcast:192.168.36.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fe2b:2d5b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2246 (2.1 KiB) TX bytes:2962 (2.8 KiB)
Base address:0x7000 Memory:d0220000-d0240000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2451 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2451 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:123992 (121.0 KiB) TX bytes:123992 (121.0 KiB)
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"Blah"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security
mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
/etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.36.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.36.0
broadcast 192.168.36.255
gateway 192.168.36.1
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 192.168.36.1
dns-search DeLorean
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
address 192.168.36.12
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.36.0
broadcast 192.168.36.255
gateway 192.168.36.1
wireless_ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
wireless_mode managed
wlan_ng_authtype sharedkey
wireless_key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# Enabling the WEP encryption
wireless_enc on
# The WLAN Name
wireless_essid Blah
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