Bug 209392

Summary:	ipw2200 non-functional on Thinkpad T43p
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Miller <davem>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	davej, linville, wtogami
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description David Miller 2006-10-05 01:21:39 UTC

Description of problem:

Although the driver assosciates properly before the interface
is brought up, upon "ifup" the ipw2200 link goes down and
the device becomes totally non-functional.  Even rmmod'ing
the ipw2200 driver and reloading it does not bring the link
back.  Only a full reboot gets the link back, but it again
dies as soon as one tries to ifup the ipw2200 interface.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot
2.ifup eth1
3.
  
Actual results:

ipw2200 device wedges

Expected results:

ipw2200 interface comes up properly

Additional info:

I am using the current firmware from Intel's ipw2200 sourceforge
site.  This problem has been happening ever since FC6 post-Test3
rawhide became installable on this laptop.  I do remember FC6 test1
and test2 working with the wireless interface on this system.

Comment 1 David Miller 2006-10-05 01:25:50 UTC

There was one strange message in the kernel logs when the ipw2200 device
tries to come up, from the ieee80211 stack:

eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via
ieee_device->is_queue_full.

I notice that this debugging message has been removed from the current
ieee80211 stack sources in Linus's GIT tree.

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2006-10-05 12:44:50 UTC

Does it work if you change the ESSID by adding a space on the end?  So for 
example,

   ESSID="davem"

becomes

   ESSID="davem "

Comment 3 David Miller 2006-10-13 06:38:27 UTC

I finally was able to get an install on my laptop using rawhide to start
playing this again, and the problem has gone away.  My wireless works
fine.

I wonder if I had a broken 3.0 firmware image.