Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com ([209.85.220.227]:45619 "EHLO mail-fx0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753847Ab0DAH1J (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:27:09 -0400 Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so223821fxm.28 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:27:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1270056176.2446.3494.camel@rchatre-DESK> References: <1270056176.2446.3494.camel@rchatre-DESK> From: Jeremi Thebeau Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:26:48 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN randomly shuts off To: reinette chatre Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks Reinette, I haven't played around much with ucode, linux modules, dirver and applying patches. Do you have a suggestion for a good primer. I will try to make sense of that ridiculously long bug when i get a chance. Assuming I am able to install and patch, if the device drops off again, are there any specific logs I should keep an eye on to help test this patch? Jeremi On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:22 PM, reinette chatre wrote: > Hi Jeremi, > > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 22:43 -0700, Jeremi Thebeau wrote: > >> jeremi@linux64:~$ uname -a >> Linux linux64 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC >> 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> with Ubuntu Karmic 64 bit. > > Is it possible to give the latest driver code a try to ensure we are > dealing with the latest features? compat-wireless may be an easy way for > you to do this. > > We have seen some devices that essentially get disconnected from the > platform, which seems to be happening here. We prepared a patch for this > a while ago, but nobody with this issue has yet been able to test it. > Perhaps you could? Please try > http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2037#c112 ... > hopefully it will still be straight forward to apply. > > Reinette > > >