linux-kernel - Re: iwl4965: "MAC is in deep sleep!" freezes

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:22:28 +0100
From:	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@...entia.net>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@....edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwl4965: "MAC is in deep sleep!" freezes

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:51 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> Hmm, on my experience, software sucks much more than hardware, but we
> never can exclude hardware problem. I'm not sure if there are divergence
> between iwl4965 chipsets. Also I'm not sure if there are more than one
> chipsets revision at all.
Me neither unfortunately...

> Christoph, you mentioned that you replaced you 
> motherboard. Did the problem start to happen after that?
Yep,... the old board broke (and the system didn't bot anymore at
all)... it was replaced with a new one by the manufacturer... and
starting with that (with no software change on the disk in the meantime)
the wifi didn't work anymore (as described).


> Did you
> correctly connect antennas cables to adapter.
yep... at first (when they sent it back to me) it was not connected at
all... I connected it... the problem persists in both states, connected
and unconnected.

> Does adapter sits
> tight in the mini PCIe slot?
yep


> No, that's not needed if there are no good logs for compare. If possible
> try on some very old kernel, first kernel with iwl4965 support was 2.6.24.
I'll have a look...

Chris.

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