Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42150 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752576AbYDPUH5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:07:57 -0400 Subject: RE: iwl3945 problem with 2.6.25-rc9 From: Dan Williams To: Marcus Furlong Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:04:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1208376292.27708.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (sfid-20080416_210808_753599_7F0532ED) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 20:48 +0100, Marcus Furlong wrote: > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 20:01 in , Marcus > Furlong wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 April 2008 19:28 in > > > , > > Chatre, Reinette wrote: > > > >> Looks like the device is being brought up and down a lot ... are you > >> perhaps running wpa_supplicant or some other user application that is > >> doing this? Could you please give more information about what you were > >> doing when these errors started to appear? > > > > Yes, wpa_supplicant is running as part of the boot process. Should I use > > some other application? (Do wireless-tools support WPA?) Or should I just > > load the module on it's own and give the dmesg output from that? > > Here is the output from the module loading without wpa_supplicant, then me > reloading it with debug flags, and running ifconfig wlan0 and iwlist > scanning. Still some Microcode SW and FW errors in there, but there's a lot > less noise. > > https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~furlongm/iwlwifi/iwl3945-output-no-wpasupplicant.bz2 Interesting; can you run wpa_supplicant again but dump it's detailed output using "-dddt" for us so we can see what it's doing and if it's causing the restarts? Dan