Re: iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_TX_PWR_TABLE_CMD: time out after500ms

From: Mattia Dongili
Date: Sat Mar 21 2009 - 21:15:32 EST


On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:30:29AM -0700, Abhi Kolekar wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I get this error consistently with all the recent kernels:
> > [  338.476057] iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_TX_PWR_TABLE_CMD: time out after 500ms.
> > [  458.976089] iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_TX_PWR_TABLE_CMD: time out after 500ms.
> > [  598.885036] iwl3945: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x82000008.
> > [  598.885050] iwl3945: Error Reply type 0x00000005 cmd REPLY_TX (0x1C) seq 0x02AC ser 0x0000004E
> > [  601.869319] iwl3945: Can't stop Rx DMA.
> > then the wifi connection becomes useless and I have to re-associate to
> > the AP or sometimes to unload and reload the module to get my connection
> > back.
> >
> > The above is on 2.6.29-rc8 but I get it since 2.6.28 (apologies for not
> > reporting it earlier).  Both my thinkpad x60s and my vaio sz72b are
> > affected.
> > Reproducing it is very easy, I just need to download even a small file.
> >
> > After reading some older bug submissions I rebuilt the driver with debug
> > support and loaded it with debug=0x43fff, the log is here:
> > http://kamineko.org/kernel/kern.log
> > The beginning of the log is 2.6.28 with no debug, then you can see a
> > reboot and the module loaded with the debug option on 2.6.29-rc8.
> >
> > Is this a known problem? Is there any other information I can provide to
> > help fixing it?
>
> Hello Mattia,
> Do you have 64 bit kernel?

No, both laptops are running 32bit kernels

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mattia
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