Re: Airport stops working.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:44:33PM +0200, Enric Nadal wrote:
> El Viernes, 21 de Octubre de 2005 00:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió:
> > You mean that occasionally, when you boot, it doesn't work ?
> No, when i boot the computer, the card works ok, but from time to time, it
> stops working. Ifdowning ang ifuping again doesn't solve the problem, and
> neither does rmmoding airport, hermes...
> I seems more an issue of
> eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
> eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
> as Wojciech says in his message.
> But i don't know how to trace the problem better or reproduce.
> For that is what I need help, so I could be more precise.
> Regards,
> Enric
>
> PD: It happened again while I was typing this message. Looking at logs, I've
> found this, perhaps its useful:
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:0002
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0046
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.70
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: MAC address 00:30:65:26:FF:7C
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: ready
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: airport: Card registered for interface eth0
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet
> 00:0a:95:71:d1:a8
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth0: Found BCM5221 PHY
> Oct 21 16:19:00 fourier kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
>
> It's really messed with eth0 and eth1, and iwconfig says eth0 has no wireless
> extensions.
I'd listen to what iwconfig says: If it says eth0 has no wireless
extensions then something might have gone wrong with your network
drivers and/or your settings in /etc/network/interfaces. That is, I
wouldn't be surprised if eth0 suddenly, after being loaded as your
radio device, stops working.
In other words: I'd find out via 'ifconfig -a' or 'iwconfig' or
'macchanger -s <some-deviceX>' what your system thinks your WLAN
device is, and then change the name of your ethX wireless device in
/etc/network/interfaces to the correct name. Provided you use the
latter file for your wireless connection ...
We have discussed this in extenso a few days lately. And in one
message I gave a hopefully both verbose and correct description for a
workaround for the issue:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/10/msg00283.html>
It might be difficult, but IINM I have the same radio card ("Hermes
I") on a Powerbook, and except that it only supports WEP encryption so
far this card, once started correctly, works like a charm here ...
I'm using patched kernels for my wireless networking, but I don't
believe that this is the reason for your card crashing and mine
working ... I'd bet it's the issue as described above and in the
thread from the URL above ...
Good luck
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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