will have a look at this.
Which version of if_iwi.c are you using ?
cheers
luigi
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200, V.Chukharev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that iwi driver cannot survive more than just a few cycles of
> switching down/up.
> In a place with a bad wireless connection I needed to do that quite a number
> of times
> (that was the simplest way to restore connectivity I knew), and after 5-10
> cycles I needed
> to reboot my notebook totally.
>
> Can anybody with iwi (<Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG>) confirm (or better
> unconfirm)
> that doing
>
> for ii in `jot 100`; do sudo ifconfig iwi0 down; sleep 2; sudo ifconfig
> iwi0 up; done
>
> always results in the following messages (and lost connectivity):
>
> Feb 15 09:43:59 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP
> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
> Feb 15 09:44:18 chu kernel: iwi0: device timeout
> Feb 15 09:44:20 chu kernel: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory
>
> A fix for this would be even better ;))
>
> Thanks,
> --
> V. Chukharev
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