Bugzilla Bug 147546

On Dell Inspiron 6400 with ipw3945 wireless card, I emerged
net-wireless/ieee80211-1.2.15 and rebooted to load new drivers.  the system
locked up completely near the end of the boot process (Setting up gdm). 
Retried 4 times.  Same outcome.  Downgraded to previous stable version
1.1.13-r1 and all worked properly as before.

I could find nothing unusual in the logs.

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2400  @
1.83GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Last Sync: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/
http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://130.59.10.34/mirror/gentoo/"
LINGUAS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 arts avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdr cli
crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dv dvb dvd dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode
esd fbcon fbsplash firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++
libnotify libwww mad mikmod mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime
readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora tiff
totem truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx
video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv xvid
zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Which ipw3945 version is that ?

Also, this could be a possible duplicate of bug #146715.

*** Bug 146715 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I posted #146715 it seems it is in fact ieee80211 which is in cause
same freeze here with 1.1.14 & 1.2.15 (why is there a jump from 1.1.14 to
1.2.15 ?)

emerge --info
=============
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r7-20060904-4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7-20060904-4 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU          
T2250  @ 1.73GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Last Sync: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r5
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mtune=pentium-m -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=pentium-m -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt cups divx
dlloader dri dvd dvdr elibc_glibc emboss fam firefox gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux
libg++ linguas_fr mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nojoystick nptl nptlonly
nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline
real reflection sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx video_cards_vesa vorbis
win32codecs wmp xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Sorry for the delay getting back.
I am running 
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-1.1.0  USE="-debug"

(In reply to comment #4)
> I posted #146715 it seems it is in fact ieee80211 which is in cause
> same freeze here with 1.1.14 & 1.2.15 (why is there a jump from 1.1.14 to
> 1.2.15 ?)

UPSTREAM decided to do that sort of bump (I've no clue why). Anyway this should
be fixed with ipw3945-1.1.0-r1 (just commited that), which has a fixed
[R]DEPEND upon ieee80211-1.1.13-r1.

My ipw3945 works fine using it with ieee80211-1.2.15. I don't have this
problem.

This is my /etc/modules.d/ipw3945 (all lines are commented):

# modules.d configuration file for IPW3945
# For more information please read:
#    README.ipw3945


# Configurable module parameters
# ------------------------------
# antenna:      select antenna (1=Main, 2=Aux, default 0 [both])
# disable:      manually disable the radio (default 0 [radio on])
# associate:    auto associate when scanning (default 0 off)
# auto_create:  auto create adhoc network (default 1 on)
# led:  enable led control (default 1 on)
# channel:      channel to limit associate to (default 0 [ANY])
# rtap_iface:   create the rtap interface (1 - create, default 0)
# mode: network mode (0=BSS,1=IBSS,2=Monitor)


dmesg | grep i:
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.2.15
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ipw3945: no version for "ieee80211_wx_get_encodeext" found: kernel tainted.


My emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-suspend2-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @
1.66GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -msse3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium-m -mfpmath=sse -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ "
LANG="es_ES"
LC_ALL="es_ES"
LINGUAS="es en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa ansi apache2 arts asf audiofile avi
bash-completion bcmath beagle bidi bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib cairo caps
cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrparanoia cli cpdflib cross crypt cscope css ctype
cups curl curlwrappers dbus dga dio directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dts dv dvb
dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc encode escreen esd evo exif fam fbcon ffmpeg
fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gb gcj gd ggi gif gimp gimpprint glitz
glut glx gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl iconv
imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java jikes jpeg kde
kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux latex lcms ldap lesstif libg++
libnotify linguas_en_US linguas_es logrotate lua mad mbox mikmod mime ming mmap
mmx mmxext mng mono motif mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer musepack nas ncurses nethack nls
nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl opnegl oss
pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl pic png pnp posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4
quicktime readline real reflection reiserfs rtc ruby scanner sdl seamonkey
session slang slp smp sndfile sockets socks5 speex spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl
svg syslog tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts
trusted type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd
video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa videos vim
vorbis wifi win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xv
xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Please, post your /etc/modules.d/ipw3945

Thanks

I still have this problem.  I upgraded ipw3945
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-1.1.0-r1  USE="-debug"
and tried again last night.  System still has hard freeze during boot.

# cat /etc/modules.d/ipw3945
# modules.d configuration file for IPW3945
# For more information please read:
#    README.ipw3945


# Configurable module parameters
# ------------------------------
# antenna:      select antenna (1=Main, 2=Aux, default 0 [both])
# disable:      manually disable the radio (default 0 [radio on])
# associate:    auto associate when scanning (default 0 off)
# auto_create:  auto create adhoc network (default 1 on)
# led:  enable led control (default 1 on)
# channel:      channel to limit associate to (default 0 [ANY])
# rtap_iface:   create the rtap interface (1 - create, default 0)
# mode: network mode (0=BSS,1=IBSS,2=Monitor)

Additionally here is a snapshot from /var/log/messages with 1.2.15 followed by
1.1.13 

Sep 30 21:20:37 kelpie5 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
Sep 30 21:20:37 kelpie5 ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.2.15
Sep 30 21:20:37 kelpie5 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
<jketreno@linux.intel.com>

Sep 30 21:24:05 kelpie5 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
Sep 30 21:24:05 kelpie5 ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.13
Sep 30 21:24:05 kelpie5 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
<jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Sep 30 21:24:09 kelpie5 ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels,
4 802.11a channels)
Sep 30 21:24:11 kelpie5 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'

(In reply to comment #9)
> I still have this problem.  I upgraded ipw3945
> [ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/ipw3945-1.1.0-r1  USE="-debug"
> and tried again last night.  System still has hard freeze during boot.

Which net-wireless/ieee80211 version are you using ?

For me ipw3945 works fine with ieee80211-1.1.14-r1, I first let the ebuild
downgrade as it wanted but I have really bad disconnection issues with 1.1.13
so I dared to upgrade to 1.1.14-r1 again wich previously solved the problem and
everything works great, I've never seen any lock down during boot. The problem
must lie elswhere than ieee80211. Until the hard dependency is removed, is
there an easy way to bypass this or do I have to create an overlay and a
modified ebuild?

I had this same problem with my ipw3945d. I have all packages unmasked
(ACCEPT_KEYWORKDS="~x86").

When I ran "emerge -av iee80211 ipw3945", both iee80211-1.2.15 AND
iee80211-1.13-r1 appeared in the list, along with ipw9345-1.1.0-r1. (I believe
ipw3945d-1.1.0-r1 hard depends on net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.13-r1). After
letting that install anyway, my laptop completely hardlocks about 2 seconds
after starting ipw3945d.

After rebooting, I removed all of those packages, added
">net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.13-r1" to /etc/portage/package.mask, and
re-emerged iee80211 and ipw3945. With _only_ iee80211-1.1.13-r1 installed,
everything works fine.

Something really weird happened to me eariler today and this is the only bug
that looks close.

I was in Dallas airport, trying to use their T-Mobile WiFi network. dhcpcd
worked fine and got name servers, gateway, etc. The first site that it
redirects you to worked fine as well. However, clicking on any other link gave
me kernel panics in ieee80211. The same thing happened when I did "lynx
test.com"

Could you guys please unmerge ieee80211, remove your kernel-sources (as in
emerge -C and rm -rf /usr/src/linux), remerge them and then remerge ipw3945 /
ipw3945-ucode (the ~arch'ed version(s)) ?

Please reopen this bug once you have the test-results.

(In reply to comment #14)
> Could you guys please unmerge ieee80211, remove your kernel-sources (as in
> emerge -C and rm -rf /usr/src/linux), remerge them and then remerge ipw3945 /
> ipw3945-ucode (the ~arch'ed version(s)) ?
> 
> Please reopen this bug once you have the test-results.
> 

now, I have this system lock ups with ipe3945-1.2.0 and ieee80211 from kernel
:-(, I have reverted to 1.1.3 and ieee80211-1.2.15 :-(