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| Summary: | WLAN connection drops regularly with Intel N 6300 (rev 35) | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 | Reporter: | Tim - <timshel> |
| Component: | Kernel | Assignee: | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | forgotten_OfsFetVrzR, jeffm, thardeck |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 11.3 | ||
| URL: | http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2287 | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Tim -
2010-11-14 13:46:50 UTC
Interesting, I have posted a bug report with an easy fix mentioned inside and it doesn't get any response after six weeks. What else do I need to add? Although I have only upgrade my system and since I have already replaced the firmware file manually I am not sure if the package has been upgraded in the mean time. Anyway the bug would be still an issue in OpenSUSE 11.3. Greg, this one is fixed by a firmware update. *** Bug 668130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Ok, this problem is more complicated then I thought. At the time of the report I was using openSUSE 11.3 productive while 11.4 only for testing purposes for a short amount of time. I a have switched to 11.4 lately and realized that the the issue still appears even with the new firmware update (while probably less intense). So the firmware update fixes the issue on 11.3 but not on 11.4. I have made a bug report at Intel and they have posted a patch which helps but doesn't fix all issues. At least it makes WLAN useable on my machine again with 2.6.37. http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2214 Sorry, it was the wrong bug report: http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2287 So I have done some testing and it seems that in 11.4 the problem mainly appears in the 5 GHz band and not the 2.4 one. Nevertheless I also had this issue with openSUSE 11.3 and standard 802.11g. This was fixed by updating the firmware so please do so. I don't see what the problem is updating the firmware to a newer, compatible one which was released around eight months ago. Updating the firmware would fix the problem in 11.3 completely and on 11.4 at least the 2.4 GHz band should be fine. So this issue still appears with the 11.4 final version and the firmware hasn't changed. 5 GHz is only working for a few minutes while 802.11g with 2.4 GHz seems to be working better. Ick, why is this firmware change not upstream? Has the Intel developers said anything about that? I will look into updating our version of this firmware file in the kernel-firmware package... Ok, can you try the kernel-firmware package at: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=kernel-firmware&project=home%3Agregkh%3Abranches%3AKernel%3AHEAD and let me know if it solves the problem for you or not? Thanks for the package. The upgrade works but this sadly doesn't fix the 5 GHz problem with 2.6.37 anymore. Something relevant seems to have changed since 2.6.34. I am currently using 802.11g instead. [ 130.562208] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Received BA when not expected [ 161.762789] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: low ack count detected, restart firmware [ 161.762796] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: On demand firmware reload [ 161.842447] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Stopping AGG while state not ON or starting [ 161.842458] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: queue number out of range: 0, must be 10 to 19 [ 171.201366] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Aggregation not enabled for tid 0 because load = 0 [ 176.075605] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Aggregation not enabled for tid 0 because load = 10 I am going to test it with 11.3 tomorrow. In 11.3 the problem was worse because even 802.11g had huge problems but on the other hand both issues could be circumvented with the new firmware most of the time. Since I haven't used 11.3 since quite some time I do some longer tests tomorrow. But it solves the firmware problem, right? If so, I'll submit it for inclusion to the main repos. So I have tested the new firmware with 11.3 and 5GHz WLAN works without problems. I have downloaded an iso and were running ping during the time and didn't lost one packet. There were also no firmware reload messages in dmesg. I am not sure what you mean with firmware problem. In 11.4 it doesn't fix the connection problem but I haven't seen the Microcode SW error. The last one doesn't have to mean anything because I haven't tested it as long. Greg, could you please push a package update of kernel-firmware for 11.4 containing the updated blobs? It would fix a lot of reliability issues. This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (653508) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/76047 Factory / kernel-firmware Now done, submit request 78711 |