Bug 425777

Summary:	Laptop hangs when wireless association lost
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Huffman <bloch>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8	CC:	cebbert, davej
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Description Adam Huffman 2007-12-15 12:46:06 UTC

Description of problem:
Over the past few weeks I have found that when association is lost to my home
wireless network (often caused by our answering machine interfering with the
router), the laptop is freezing and I have to do a hard reboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results

Expected results:


Additional info:
Here's the laptop:

http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=797a5df5-36c6-487e-81e2-11ac0c0011fb

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2007-12-17 15:50:14 UTC

Can you capture the output of Alt-Sysrq-T?

Comment 2 Adam Huffman 2007-12-17 20:40:44 UTC

I'll try, though it's usually in X when it happens and it doesn't react to the
keyboard at all.

Comment 3 John W. Linville 2007-12-19 14:21:44 UTC

Someone has suggested that you might be using the ipw3945 driver rather than 
the iwl3945 driver ("ipw" vs "iwl").  I have no idea how they determined this 
from this bug report, but I thought I would ask...is that so?

Comment 4 Adam Huffman 2007-12-19 23:19:15 UTC

It isn't, no.

Comment 5 John W. Linville 2008-01-04 22:30:10 UTC

Could you add "options iwl3945 debug=0x43fff" to /etc/modprobe.conf, reboot, 
recreate the problem, then attach the contents of /var/log/messages to this 
bug?

Thanks!

Comment 6 Adam Huffman 2008-01-08 23:40:58 UTC

I've added that setting but haven't seen the problem for a few weeks now, so I'm
closing the bug.  I'll re-open if it recurs.