Re: iwi0: fatal firmware error

2018-03-03 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Stefan and Z Ero, Thank you. I do not live in the US and it is very hard to get old parts, because most of the sellers do to ship to where I live. I think I can live with the unstable wireless adapter for now. I probably should have spent less time on-line anyway. If I am too bothered with

Re: iwi0: fatal firmware error

2018-03-03 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 05:49:33AM -0500, Z Ero wrote: > I believe these era Thinkpads will not accept a non-IBM authorized > minipci WIFI card without Bios modification. > > See > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card The misc/tpwireless port can help work

Re: iwi0: fatal firmware error

2018-03-03 Thread Z Ero
I believe these era Thinkpads will not accept a non-IBM authorized minipci WIFI card without Bios modification. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card If your bios accepts an IBM part numbered Atheros card I would recommend that as the Ath cards have exce

Re: iwi0: fatal firmware error

2018-03-03 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 09:39:34PM +, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear Stefan, > > Thank you. I guess the first step is to find out a way to ask iwi0 > driver to output more details of the error, before it could be fixed. > I don't have prior experiences with the iwi0 driver. Do you know how I > can

Re: iwi0: fatal firmware error

2018-03-02 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Stefan, Thank you. I guess the first step is to find out a way to ask iwi0 driver to output more details of the error, before it could be fixed. I don't have prior experiences with the iwi0 driver. Do you know how I can enable a debugger mode, if there is one? Yours sincerely, Xianwen On 3/

Re: iwi0: fatal firmware error

2018-03-02 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 12:14:14PM +, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear OpenBSD users, > > I am running OpenBSD 6.2 i386 on ThinkPad R52. The system has been > complaining "iwi0: fatal firmware error" in the past two or three > days. I was not aware of the problem before that. > > The problem can us

Re: "iwi0: fatal firmware error"

2017-07-01 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 06:19:59PM +, Roderick wrote: > > Wlan works, but I continously get the above message in the > Toshiba Satellite mentioned in my previous posting. > > Rodrigo. > This driver has been reporting such errors forever. I would happily review patches fixing bugs in iwi(4)