Ralph Shumaker
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:50:50 -0700
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:What can I do about this error message? ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command. I just now freshly installed Fedora 9 onto a laptop for someone.It concerns me that dmesg is getting a repeating message approximately 6 times each minute. The message appeared 54 times over 10 minutes, then 68 times over the next 10 minutes, and most recently 59 times over the final 10 minutes. So it is not consistent with precision, but generally.The ipw2200 messages have 4 lines before all the incessant repeats: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connectionipw2200: Detected geography ZZA (11.802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)And *now* when I run 'dmesg | grep -i "ipw" | grep -v "Failed to send ", I also get 6 of these messages:ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.The 6 lines are interspersed among the 539 lines of the "Failed to send " message, tho in a very inconsistent manner.First appears the 4 ipw2200 lines about the interface.Then come about 426 of "Failed to send" followed by 1 line of "Restarting". Then come about 124 of "Failed to send" followed by 2 lines of "Restarting".Then 1 and 1. Then 1 and 2. Then 76 and 1. Then 1 and 2. Then 2 and 1. Then 1 and 1. Then 18 and 1. Then 1 and 3. Then 15 and 4. Then 1 and 1. Then 8. Very inconsistent.I don't know what to do about the laptop wireless interface beyond this point.I'm considering pulling my dsl ethernet line from my PC to plug into the laptop eth0 to verify that it can access the internet that way. But if the laptop owner has a wireless AP, he should be able to go that way. With these 2 error messages repeating this way, something is obviously amiss, and I have *zero* experience in wireless troubleshooting.I don't have a wireless AP here. The wireless on the laptop is eth1. It also has eth0, which I'm sure is the ethernet plug in the back.As suggested, I got the latest firmware for the ipw2200, only to discover that the newest firmware files are identical to the ones installed.What should I check next? # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC:1 RX packets:1104477 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:816177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1597740002 (1.4 GiB) TX bytes:61188242 (58.3 MiB) Interrupt:16 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC:1 RX packets:0 errors:10 dropped:10 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:56 (56.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:17 Base address:0xe000 Memory:dfcff000-dfcfffff lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 METRIC:1 RX packets:5586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:292504 (285.6 KiB) TX bytes:292504 (285.6 KiB) # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0 Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 pan0 no wireless extensions.
I'm hoping to catch it as it starts. I rebooted, and at a virtual terminal, entered this (after searching thru old emails for the pieces needed for the formula): $ while true; do (dmesg | grep ipw ; /sbin/iwconfig eth1 ; /sbin/ifconfig eth1 ; uptime ; sleep 60); done
So far, nothing is changing except the RX and TX packet numbers on ifconfig. RX jumped up 566 and TX jumped up 55 from the previous minute. And now, 670 and 56, respectively. Now, 644 and 55. Now, 604 and 55.
I don't have wireless, so there must be something in the vicinity. --If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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