Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100 - halt system on Squeeze
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:58:52PM -0300, Felipe Valverde wrote: Definitively the culprit is the new driver. I tried the testing and the unstable driver but they just do not work properly. They will freeze my laptop as soon as I try to connect to a wireless network. My fix is just a band-aid and it can't be considered a good fix, but it works. In order to know if the driver is the problem, I compiled the 2.6.35.7 kernel version a few time ago and works perfectly (I'm using it now), so I think that the problem isn't the driver. Before that, I compiled others version and also works. Another interesting thing is with the same hardware on Ubuntu also works, so, I wonder if the problem is on the way that the kernel was compile for amd64 or something else. On the other hand, when I used the 2.6.32-27 (current kernel for Squeeze) the system is halt most of the time. So... ¿Someone is using the current kernel and drivers from Squeeze repository on a amd64 and have it working well? If upgrading the kernel fixes things, then it does sound like a driver issue. Almost certainly the driver has changed between 2.6.32 and 2.6.35.7. This wouldn't be the first time an update has broken the 5100. It happened once before that a stable point update broke the 5100. I think that was in 2.6.31 or maybe early 2.6.32. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101115165450.gs12...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100 - halt system on Squeeze
Hi Definitively the culprit is the new driver. I tried the testing and the unstable driver but they just do not work properly. They will freeze my laptop as soon as I try to connect to a wireless network. My fix is just a band-aid and it can't be considered a good fix, but it works. In order to know if the driver is the problem, I compiled the 2.6.35.7 kernel version a few time ago and works perfectly (I'm using it now), so I think that the problem isn't the driver. Before that, I compiled others version and also works. Another interesting thing is with the same hardware on Ubuntu also works, so, I wonder if the problem is on the way that the kernel was compile for amd64 or something else. On the other hand, when I used the 2.6.32-27 (current kernel for Squeeze) the system is halt most of the time. So... ¿Someone is using the current kernel and drivers from Squeeze repository on a amd64 and have it working well?
Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100 - halt system on Squeeze
Felipe, I have my Intel 5100 wireless card working again. This is what I did: 1. Purged the firmware-iwlwifi 0.27 from my system. 2. Installed this one instead: firmware-iwlwi 0.24~bpo50+1 Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 496 I've downloaded this .deb from the lenny backports: http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/firmware-iwlwifi 3. In order to troubleshoot I disabled the Network-Manager 4. Enabled the interface and configured it: r...@aristoteles:~# ifconfig wlan0 up r...@aristoteles:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID_NAME r...@aristoteles:~# dhclient wlan0 done! 5. I prevent the firmware-iwlwifi 0.24 to be updated. r...@aristoteles:~# echo firmware-iwlwifi hold | dpkg --set-selections Check: r...@aristoteles:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep firm firmware-iwlwifihold Definitively the culprit is the new driver. I tried the testing and the unstable driver but they just do not work properly. They will freeze my laptop as soon as I try to connect to a wireless network. My fix is just a band-aid and it can't be considered a good fix, but it works. I hope this helps, cheers! Eng. Andres Migliazzo.
Re: Intel Wifi Link 5100 - halt system on Squeeze
I was WRONG. As soon as I rebooted and attempted to connect to my wireless network the system hangs. 1. I've purged firmware-iwlwifi firmware-linux-nonfree from the system. 2. Rebooted. 3. With the system online I've installed firmware-iwlwifi. 4. Unplugged the network cable and enables the wireles interface. It connected. 5. Rebooted again. 6. The system freezes. This is an HP laptop 6930p with this wireless card: Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connectio It is a Debian AMD64 squeeze system with a 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel. It was working fine a couple of weeks ago. I have installed the stable firmware-iwlwifi and it does not hangs but the card refuses to up. I suspect that the new kernel broke it when I upgraded it, from the dpkg log: 2010-11-02 19:16:31 upgrade linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-26 2.6.32-27 When I look for the old kernel in the /boot directory I can't find it. Only the new one. How can I downgrade a kernel in this cases? Thank you Andres Migliazzo
