Bug 171740

Which ipw2100 firmware package are you using? 
 
   rpm -qa | grep ipw2100-firmware 
 

Well, as I mentioned before, its ipw2100-firmware-1.3-1
Hope it helps!
If you need anyother info, let me know.

Well, as I mentioned before, its ipw2100-firmware-1.3-1
Hope it helps!
If you need anyother info, let me know.

I have test kernels w/ a bunch of wireless updates available here: 
 
   http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ 
 
Would you mind giving them a try to see if they work any better for you?  
Thanks! 

Linville,

I used the following kernel: kernel-2.6.9-22.8.EL.jwltest.80.i686.rpm  	Kernel
for i686 systems on my IBM Thinkpad X31 Centrino, and my wireless worked perfectly.

When a official update will be available to RHEL4 ?
Congrats for a good job!

Att.
Filipe Miranda

Filipe, 
 
Thanks for the information!  Unfortunately, we are probably too late to get 
this into Update 3.  Hopefully it will be in Update 4. 
 
Thanks again! 

Created attachment 120571 [details]
jwltest-ieee80211-update.patch

Created attachment 120572 [details]
jwltest-ipw2100-update.patch

Created attachment 120573 [details]
jwltest-ipw2200-update.patch

Created attachment 120574 [details]
cisco-vpnclient error messages

Really?? That's too bad! U2 just came out, U3 will take 3-4 months, U4 will be
available in 7-8 months!! outch !! thats a lot of time to wait...
Is there something you can do about it?

Also, this patches fixes the ipw2100 problems but now my cisco-vpnclient
software wont compile anymore, I have attached the errors I get.
Is there something you can do about it?

Regards,
FTM

Did you install the matching kernel-devel rpm from the location in comment 4? 

Ops! My bad! Installed the kernel-devel and it works just fine the cisco-vpnclient.
But are you sure about the fix will not make to U3?

Regards,
FTM

Linville,

I doing intensive testing file tranfers using my wireless card today and I
noticed that this Message still occurs:

kernel:ipw2100: Fatal Interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.

The size of the files are something like 300MB, 500MB, and even a DVD transfer 4GB.
This message appears like after 10 seconds and slows down the transfer to almost
1/2 fo the B(11Mb) throughput.

When I tested and there were no errors I tested with small files.
I attached a sysreport (notice SELinux is enables but in permissive mode).

Thanks a lot

Created attachment 120684 [details]
Sysreport from my machine

Created attachment 124706 [details]
jwltest-ieee80211-update.patch

Created attachment 124708 [details]
jwltest-ipw2100-update.patch

Created attachment 124709 [details]
jwltest-ipw2200-update.patch

Test kernels w/ the above patches available here: 
 
   http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ 
 
These are quite a bit later than the previous round, so hopefully they will 
work better for you.  Please give them a try and let me know the 
results...thanks! 

Need feedback ASAP if this is going to be in U4... 

Hi Lin,

I installed the kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.i686.rpm package, loaded it up
and now if I try to load the wireless interface I get the message:

eth1: could not initialize WEP: load module ieee80211_crypt_wep
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

So I rolledback to the kernel 2.6.9-34.EL and it worked just as before.
 

Hmmm...are you by chance specifying a nickname for your wireless device?  In 
fact, ifup-wireless is probably specifying it for you... 
 
Can you comment-out the line in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless 
that looks like this: 
 
   iwconfig $DEVICE nick "$NICKNAME" >/dev/null 2>&1 
 
Just put a "#" at the beginning of the line, and try again w/ the jwltest.123 
(or later) kernel?  Thanks! 
 

Lin,

this is my configuration file:

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-home

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DHCP_HOSTNAME=fmiranda.intranet.com
ESSID=TEST
KEY=11111000011100011


The error reported in my last post happens when I issue the folowing command:

ifup home

I can try to comment out the line DHCP_HOSTNAME=fmiranda.intranet.com, but it
will probably load it up from the DHCP server (since I have fixed ip addresses
for some machines on the network using the dhcp server). I will keep you posted.

Att.
Filipe

Another issue: 
If I try to recompile que scr package using this command bellow I get the
following error:

rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm
Installing kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm
   error: unpacking of archive failed on file     
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/patch-2.6.9-ac11.bz2;441850db: cpio: read
   error: kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm cannot be installed

Is this the correct behavior? or what Am I doing wrong in this case?


Att.
Filipe Miranda

re: comment 23 -- ifup home is calling ifup-wireless behind the scenes.  
Please make the change outlined in comment 22 and try again. 
 
re: comment 24 -- if I had to guess, it looks like maybe you don't have enough 
space in the filesystem that holds /usr/src/redhat? 

Lin,

There is enough space in the FS that holds /usr/src/redhat

#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             7.7G  3.7G  3.7G  51% /
/dev/hda1              99M   14M   81M  15% /boot
none                  506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5              28G   13G   16G  44% /home


I commented the line you specified and no success.

I tried to comment out the line I suggested and no success.

I tried to load the wireless interface manually and no success:

iwconfig eth1 essid TEST
iwconfig eth1 key 1111111000001111 and I the the same error after I enter this
command line.

Att.
Filipe Miranda

Re: rpmbuild -- I think you need "--target=i686" on the command line, maybe 
that will help? 
 
Regarding the WEP thing, does the device work (other than the error message)?  
What about if you disable WEP entirely?  Does it work then? 

Lin,

rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm
Installing kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm
error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/patch-2.6.9-ac11.bz2;44198345: cpio: read
error: kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm cannot be installed

The source rpms work fine here...perhaps they got corrupted when you 
downloaded them?  Did you test them against the md5sums published with them? 
 
If the md5sums are OK, I can only guess that you have a problem on the local 
machine, like not enough space in /tmp? 

I had botched the config, so the wep module was not getting built.  These 
kernels should have the wep module: 
 
   http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ 
 
Please give them a try and post the results here...thanks! 

Lin,

This new release you posted seems to work pretty good. I downloaded the src
recompiled on my thinpad nad its working just fine!

One issue so far, the network monitor from gnome, wont detect the wifi interface
as wifi interface anymore b/c there is no wifi signal strengh icon.

I transfered over 1.0GB of data over wifi using your kernel and no wifi driver
restarts. 

Good Job, will these fixes be part of RHEL4 U4? Also did you try anyother type
of encription support for this driver? Like WPA?

Att.
Filipe Miranda

committed in stream U4 build 34.24. A test kernel with this patch is available
from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html