Subject: Re: iwl3945 randomly hangs system on boot
From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Yotam Benshalom <benshalom@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:35:01 -0700
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On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:25 +0100, Yotam Benshalom wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am not a developer of any kind, but I wanted to draw your attention to
> the problem described here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/263059
> The latest iwl3945 driver combined with 2.6.27.2 and above kernel hangs
> the system randomly on boot. Removing the firmware or blacklisting the
> driver solves it. Is there a workaround? Is this a driver issue or
> kernel issue? And is this problem known and being taken care of?
> 

Could you please enable the module to be loaded at boot with debugging
enabled (debug=0x43fff) and submit a new bug at
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/ with the output when the
system freezes?

Thank you

Reinette