Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945
* Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.11.08 12:03]: Can anyone say: Yeah, I use the iwl3945 driver with 2.6.26 and it works flawlessly for me. If so, could you please post your exact kernel version (for example gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2) and your kernel config? Well, I use the iwl3945 without any problem: tuxonice-sources-2.6.26 (config attached.) But as you see I use tuxonice, and there are no problems with sleeping/waking since tuxonice unloads the module. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] config.gz Description: Binary data pgpdbFPommPGr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! I recently updated from tuxonice-2.6.24-r9 to tuxonice-2.6.26. I hoped it would solve irregular kernel crashes on my Dell notebook and would reactivate the wifi LED. However, it caused more problems than it solved. [...] Is this kernel version generally unstable? What do I need to make the LED work? What could I do to solve all these problems? I'm out of ideas at the moment and Gentoo Bugzilla doesn't offer much on these topics. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp Can anyone say: Yeah, I use the iwl3945 driver with 2.6.26 and it works flawlessly for me. If so, could you please post your exact kernel version (for example gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2) and your kernel config? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945
On Sunday 16 November 2008 13:02:54 Florian Philipp wrote: Can anyone say: Yeah, I use the iwl3945 driver with 2.6.26 and it works flawlessly for me. If so, could you please post your exact kernel version (for example gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2) and your kernel config? No-one can say that, the driver is buggy. Something to do with waking the card up or bringing it out of deep sleep. Personally, I think it's along the lines of a race condition in how the card is reliably powered up (but that's just be thinking of what's most likely). Intel has a bugzilla, which shows that virtually every distro on all platforms using the 3945 have the identical problem in every kernel version that contains this code: http://intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=1651 We have two options: - get involved, fix it ourselves, submit patch to upstream (intel) - wait for intel to come up with reliable code All the evidence points to intel taking this seriously, it's a popular card and intel wants their stuff to work nicely on linux. So chances are it's a deeper problem that it appears on the surface -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945
Hi list! I recently updated from tuxonice-2.6.24-r9 to tuxonice-2.6.26. I hoped it would solve irregular kernel crashes on my Dell notebook and would reactivate the wifi LED. However, it caused more problems than it solved. - the pvrusb2 (V4L2) kernel module works but causes kernel panics and oops - the bay (ACPI) module can't be loaded - suddenly Thunderbird disappears on suspend2disk/resume - the RFKILL switch is not always recognized (needs interface restart) - iwlwifi sometimes causes (non-critical) kernel oops when initialized - the wifi LED still doesn't work The first three points will need more investigation on my part and might soon be the topic of other threads. However, I'd like to hear your input on the other issues: Is this kernel version generally unstable? What do I need to make the LED work? What could I do to solve all these problems? I'm out of ideas at the moment and Gentoo Bugzilla doesn't offer much on these topics. I've attached the kernel config and a part of dmesg where iwlwifi caused an oops after I've restarted the net.eth1 script but then it worked flawlessly. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp kernel_config.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data dmesg.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
