Bug 278133 – net-wireless/iwl4965-ucode-228.61.2.24 dropping connection

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Märt Bakhoff 2009-07-17 11:03:46 UTC]

After upgrading
net-wireless/iwl4965-ucode-228.57.2.23 to
net-wireless/iwl4965-ucode-228.61.2.24

Problem: connection drops randomly

dmesg: 
iwlagn 0000:06:00.0: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x82000000. 

lspci -v:
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)

uname -r:
2.6.30-gentoo-r2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Märt Bakhoff 2009-07-17 11:04:37 UTC]

Created attachment 198281 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2009-07-25 19:02:54 UTC]

Thank you for report Märt. This is already known issue:
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1918

Unfortunately I don't think we can do anything more then they do. I'll close this bug at the moment since we really can do nothing...

If you really wish to help, read upstream bug report, enable debugging and add comment there.

[Comment 3 Jimmy Rosen 2009-11-30 09:24:15 UTC]

In the mean time, downgrading to =net-wireless/iwl4965-ucode-228.57.2.23
solved the issue for me (had problems of the card dropping the connection after transmitting more than a MB or two.

[Comment 4 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2009-11-30 10:15:54 UTC]

Jimmy if you want to help, please, report upstream:

http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2052
or here
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1918