Bug 436496

Summary: rt61pci wireless driver loses network connectivity in 2.6.24.3-18.fc8
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Clive Malcolm <cmalcolm>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 8CC: ivdoorn, kernel-maint
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Clive Malcolm 2008-03-07 16:07:50 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Description of problem:
trying to download a large file e.g an .iso or .rpm network connectivity is lost.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel > 2.6.24.3-18.fc8 == rt61pci 2.1.3

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. wget ftp://ftp.virginmedia.com/mirrors/fedoraproject.org/8/Live/i686/Fedora-8-Live-i686.iso
2.
$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.2.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0
default         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0

 ping 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.2.101 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.101 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.101 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.101 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.101 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 7999ms
, pipe 3

3.

Actual Results:
download stalls, network connectivity dies.

Expected Results:
download large .iso file or .rpm

Additional info:
I will add an attachment with steps and info from log files.

Comment 1 Clive Malcolm 2008-03-07 16:15:04 UTC
Created attachment 297200 [details]
steps to reproduce the problem and info from log files

steps to reproduce the problem and info from log files

Comment 2 Clive Malcolm 2008-03-08 09:29:05 UTC
just been doing some testing with kernel 2.6.24.3-22.fc8

does this help explain what is going on?

running a continuous ping.

64 bytes from www3.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.72): icmp_seq=1216 ttl=244
time=17.9 ms
64 bytes from www3.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.72): icmp_seq=1217 ttl=244
time=29.9 ms
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available

--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---
1253 packets transmitted, 1211 received, 3% packet loss, time 1271235ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 16.540/23.184/744.826/42.486 ms

Comment 3 Clive Malcolm 2008-03-08 09:34:06 UTC
Created attachment 297288 [details]
more logs

I was running a ping and got the following error, after that lost connectivity
again :(

more details in the attachment

64 [details] bytes from www3.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.72): icmp_seq=1217 ttl=244
time=29.9 ms
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
SNIP
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available

--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---
1253 packets transmitted, 1211 received, 3% packet loss, time 1271235ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 16.540/23.184/744.826/42.486 ms

Comment 4 Ivo van Doorn 2008-03-09 21:54:53 UTC
This should be fixed in rt2x00 2.1.4 which was released a few minutes ago.

Comment 5 Clive Malcolm 2008-03-10 16:09:28 UTC
Hi

Let me know when a Fedora 8 kernel has rt2x00 2.1.4 and I will test.

Comment 6 Clive Malcolm 2008-03-13 09:53:22 UTC
I have been keeping an eye on
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 and noticed
2.6.24.3-34.fc8 which has - rt2x00: Release rt2x00 2.1.4

Downloaded and installed the i386 rpm

Downloaded my test file 
ftp://ftp.virginmedia.com/mirrors/fedoraproject.org/8/Live/i686/Fedora-8-Live-i686.iso
and ran a ping at the same time.

My 730MB .iso file downloaded fine, my ping worked till I cancelled it.

My verdict, you guys are stars.

Thanks for all your help to squish this bug.

Comment 7 John W. Linville 2008-03-13 12:22:39 UTC
Thanks for the update!  All praise goes to Ivo...