strange wireless behavior

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:51:31PM -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> I am running the 1831 kernel and wireless was working for a week. 
> Suddenly tonight wireless failed and in the messages file were the
> lines:
> Feb 27 14:05:22 cyrus kernel: ipw2200: Firmware error detected.
> Restarting.
> Feb 27 14:05:22 cyrus kernel: ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured.
> Feb 27 14:15:05 cyrus gconfd (root-3112): Exiting
> 
> Well nothing would make it work again. It claimed it could not find
> the link. I dropped back to the 1369 kernel and wireless worked
> again.
> Reinstalling the 1831 kernel allowed wireless connections to be done
> when this kernel is working.
> 
> Has anyone see anything like this and can you explain it?
> It looks to me that ipw2200 module somehow corrupted but how?
> 

I can't explain it, but I may have a less drastic work-around. I had a
similar glitch yesterday. I rmmoded the ipw2200 driver, and modprobed
it. It's been fine since.

I do have a lot of this:

Mar  1 20:25:51 dragon kernel: ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
Mar  1 20:25:51 dragon kernel: ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
Mar  1 20:44:22 dragon kernel: ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
Mar  1 20:44:22 dragon kernel: ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.

I wonder if it's related to suspending to memory a lot.

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