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List:       ipw2100-devel
Subject:    Fwd: [Ipw2100-devel] monitor mode - for Intel firmware gurus
From:       Patrick Bogen <pdbogen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-10-26 18:15:22
Message-ID: 6fbe3da00510261115o12efc6cdofdd254cb11b75eaa () mail ! gmail ! com
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From: Patrick Bogen <pdbogen@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 26, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Ipw2100-devel] monitor mode - for Intel firmware gurus
To: Pedro Ramalhais <ramalhais@serrado.net>


I've been having trouble with suspend-to-ram (Hardware ACPI S4), but
I'm not sure if that's because of kernel 2.6.14 or IPW 1.0.7 (upgraded
both at the same time). This is not a bug report against IPW 1.0.7
yet, because I haven't had the chance to try 2.6.14 w/o 1.0.7 and vice
versa.

- Patrick Bogen

On 10/26/05, Pedro Ramalhais <ramalhais@serrado.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 21:59 +0200, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
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> > Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:44:10 -0700, richard weed wrote
> > >
> > >>Hello - first let me thank everyone for their excellent work on the
> > >>driver.  I have seen some issues with monitor mode that I'd like to
> > >>pass on.
> >
> > I completely agree.
> >
> > >>2. Version 2.4 of the firmware has almost continuous firmware
> > >>restarts once monitor mode is enabled.  If I load the driver, it
> > >>seems to load fine and associate with an AP.  However, once I use
> > >>'iwconfig eth1 mode monitor' the system noticeably slows down (mouse
> > >>movement becomes jerky).  If I look in the log (or on the terminal
> > >>during a shutdown), I see 'firmware restarting' messages at least
> > >>once a second.  This behaviour does not occur with v2.3.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can you edit ipw2200.c, look for MINOR and change the value to 3 and try using
> > > 1.0.8 but with the old firmware. (2.3) See if that makes a difference, else it
> > > could be the code?!
> > >
> > > .Alejandro
> >
> > I did exactly that Alejandro, and I found that it's the FW to blame, 'cause now
> > I don't have that high CPU usage. FW errors with FW 2.4 were that type:
> >
> > ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> > ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
> >
> > With FW 2.3 I have this error inmediately after loading the driver:
> >
> > eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via ieee_device->
> > is_queue_full. Which I saw correspond to the id=808.
> >
> > I know of the debug mode, my problem is that when I use it syslog is fulled with
> > ipw2200 messages, I hate this. Is there a way so that I could redirect the
> > ipw2200 debug messages to a file and not to the syslog?. I could then send you
> > more helpful info.
> >
> > I also have noticed another thing on my laptop, maybe it's not ipw2200 fault but
> > it had happened when I updated. I use kernel 2.6.13 patched with software
> > suspend 2.2 and acpi for linux. It seemed that with this configuration I was
> > going to test some stability as I had previously some random hangs in my laptop
> > (I used sleep and hibernate, I know this is dareful). When I used then new 1.0.8
> >  I had two hangs in a day, this was unexpected.
>
> I also noticed that since ipw2200-1.0.7 software suspend tends to fail
> often (hang on resume).
>
> >
> > Anyway this could be only an anecdote. I mentioned it just in case.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > - --
> > Raúl Sánchez Siles
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