Bug 220610

Summary:	ipw2100 firmware restart under load
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Ivan Makfinsky <imakfins>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	dzickus, petrides
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Description Ivan Makfinsky 2006-12-22 15:22:25 UTC

Description of problem:
Constant re-initialization of ipw2100 driver under load.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.18-1.2910.el5

How reproducible:
Under high load, happens 5-10 per minute.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot machine
2. Associate to AP with WEP
3. Initiate large download
  
Actual results:
Dmesg output shows
ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.
ipw2100: exit - failed to send CARD_DISABLE command
ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.
ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.
ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.
ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.
ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.
eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via
ieee_device->is_queue_full.
ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.


Expected results:
Firmware to work without errors.

Additional info:
Thinkpad T42

Comment 1 Ernie Petrides 2007-09-05 22:08:04 UTC

Hello, Ivan.  Does this problem still exist with the RHEL5.1 beta kernel?

I ask because there were ipw2100 and ipw2200 updates applied in 5.1.

Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2008-05-09 14:53:20 UTC

BZ has been in NEEDINFO since 2007.

Closing.