Comment 52 for bug 264104

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Elliot (elliot-orwells) wrote :

I am also experiencing this bug after upgrading from 10.04 to 11.10.

In 10.04 (fresh install) I did not had any problems, it started right after upgrading. Tried all configs above, (and associate=0 was already the default). Perhaps most people here upgraded their laptops and this became quiet?

dmesg:
[ 482.839845] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
(...)
[ 2726.480032] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
(...)
[ 3812.489364] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
(...)
[ 4006.536026] [drm] capturing error event; look for more information in /debug/dri/0/i915_error_state
[ 4006.537293] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
[ 4006.537297] page table error
[ 4006.537299] PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100
[ 4006.537305] [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
[ 4006.537315] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
[ 4006.537318] page table error
[ 4006.537320] PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100
[ 4044.647465] ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.

$grep . /sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/*

/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/antenna:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/associate:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/auto_create:1
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/bt_coexist:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/burst_duration_CCK:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/burst_duration_OFDM:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/channel:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/cmdlog:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/debug:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/disable:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/hwcrypto:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/led:1
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/mode:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/qos_burst_enable:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/qos_enable:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/qos_no_ack_mask:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/roaming:1
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/rtap_iface:0

Changed to:
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/antenna:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/associate:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/auto_create:1
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/bt_coexist:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/burst_duration_CCK:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/burst_duration_OFDM:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/channel:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/cmdlog:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/debug:278527
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/disable:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/hwcrypto:1
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/led:1
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/mode:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/qos_burst_enable:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/qos_enable:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/qos_no_ack_mask:0
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/roaming:1
/sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/rtap_iface:0

and couldn't even associate.

$lspci -v

04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation IBM ThinkPad R50e
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
 Memory at a0202000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
 Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
 Kernel modules: ipw2200