linux-kernel - Re: iwl3945 not working properly.

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Message-ID: <20080219211959.GA6623@phoenix.nasreddine.info>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:19:59 +0100
From:	Wael Nasreddine <mla@...reddine.com>
To:	"Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: iwl3945 not working properly.

This One Time, at Band Camp, "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@...el.com> said, On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:00:40AM -0800:
> On Monday, February 18, 2008 7:47 AM, John W. Linville  wrote:

> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:54:25AM +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
> >> Hello,

> >> I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 with and Intel 3945ABG card,
> >> the driver is not working properly.

> >> When I turn on my PC it works fine, but If I ever bring the interface
> >> down, I no longer can associate it with any AP without rebooting,
> >> even the one I was using, I tried rmmod/modprobe iwl3945, didn't do
> >> anything, 

> >> iwconfig shows that the wlan0 has the radio turned off, and

> >> $ cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000:04:00.0/rf_kill 1

> >> Even If I echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000:04:00.0/rf_kill
> >> whenever I try to associate the interface with an AP it turns back to
> >> 1, I tried both iwconfig and NetworkManager, same problem.

> >> There's a button on my laptop for Radio SoftKill (fn+F8) but it's not
> >> working, the soft kill is being enabled/disabled without my
> >> interference. 

> >> I tried it on kernel-2.6.24 and kernel-2.6.25-rc2 same result...

> >> Any help is appreciated...

> >> P.S: Please Cc to me, I am not subscribed to the mailing list.

> > This sounds similar to the bug here:

> > 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432264

> > The OP in that bug reports that the problem continues even after
> > reverting to older kernels that worked previously.

> > Hopefully part of the Intel crew will have some clue as to what is
> > happending here? 

> Wael,

> Could you please help us debug this issue? Unfortunately none of the
> bugs reported about this issue
> (http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1454 and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432264) have any debugging
> output. Please reopen bug
> http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1454 and add debugging
> (loading module with debug=0x43fff) to your report to help us find out
> what happens on your system when the driver loads as well as when you
> change the rfkill settings.

> Thank you very much

> Reinette

Reinette,

Since the problem I am having is slightly different than the bugs
above, I'm not sure I should post the debug there but feel free to
post it if you think it is the same...

Anyway, here attached is the debugging file, I hope this helps,
because it's so annoying, I had to reboot my laptop is order to send
this message...

Regards,

-- 
Wael Nasreddine
http://wael.nasreddine.com
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