Gentoo Websites Logo
Go to: Gentoo Home Documentation Forums Lists Bugs Planet Store Wiki Get Gentoo!

Bug 158277

Summary: net-wireless/ipw3945(d): Freezing when on powersafe
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Markus Herhoffer <markus>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Christian Heim (RETIRED) <phreak>
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST    
Severity: normal CC: jkt, seemant
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 158420    
Attachments: output of dmesg

Description Markus Herhoffer 2006-12-16 04:37:18 UTC
My network interface freezes when I run it in powersaving mode. It works for some minutes, then I get [att1] when running dmesg (last few lines are important). Neither '/etc/init.d/net.ethx stop' nor iwconfig/ifconfig work. All of them freeze and cannot be revoked. Shutting down the system ends up with an infinite loop. 

I set the powersaving mode with 'iwpriv ethx set_power 7'. Running 'iwpriv ethx get_power' shows that all went fine (7 BATTERY). I usually use vpnc (free, non-Cisco implementation) together with my wlan interface.
Comment 1 Markus Herhoffer 2006-12-16 04:38:19 UTC
Created attachment 104125 [details]
output of dmesg
Comment 2 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-01-12 12:48:17 UTC
I'm not sure what we can do about it. I'd suggest filing a bug at upstream's bugtracker, http://bughost.org/bugzilla/ .
Comment 3 Christian Heim (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-02 21:15:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm not sure what we can do about it. I'd suggest filing a bug at upstream's
> bugtracker, http://bughost.org/bugzilla/ .

Sadly neither I nor we can do anything about it, please file a bug upstream as its just a binary-only driver / daemon.
Comment 4 Christian Heim (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-03 07:02:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> My network interface freezes when I run it in powersaving mode. It works for
> some minutes, then I get [att1] when running dmesg (last few lines are
> important). Neither '/etc/init.d/net.ethx stop' nor iwconfig/ifconfig work. All
> of them freeze and cannot be revoked. Shutting down the system ends up with an
> infinite loop. 
> 
> I set the powersaving mode with 'iwpriv ethx set_power 7'. Running 'iwpriv ethx
> get_power' shows that all went fine (7 BATTERY). I usually use vpnc (free,
> non-Cisco implementation) together with my wlan interface.

Could you please try the ~arch version(s) of ipw3945 and ipw3945-ucode and see if they fix your problem(s) ?

Once tested with the ~arch version(s), feel free to reopen these bugs.