Bug 452360
| Summary: | Enabling European wireless channels makes iwl4965 behave erratically | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | James <james> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | kernel-maint | ||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-06-25 18:11:03 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Created attachment 309965 [details]
dmesg output with ieee80211_regdom=64 option.
Hmmm...well, I think there is some confusion here. The line in /etc/modprobe.conf should either be options mac80211 ieee80211_regdom=64 for older kernels or it should be options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom="JP" for newer kernels. In either case, the dmesg output in comment 1 looks more like a driver/firmware interaction problem to me. I would recommend changing 64 to "JP" and using a newer kernel: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=52605 Does this improve things for you? OK, I didn't do *exactly* what you asked, I tried kernel-2.6.25.8-35.fc8 from Koji and passed ieee80211_regdom="EU" (a guess, not wishing to upset the GPO ;)). This produced basically the same result from the desktop perspective: sluggishness every few seconds. It also wouldn't associate. A dmesg is attached. [Of course, if kernel-2.6.25.6-27.fc8 somehow contains newer code I'll gladly try that version.] Created attachment 310251 [details] dmesg from kernel 2.6.25.8-35.fc8 using ieee80211_regdom="EU" Note that this includes a stack dump from when I tried suspend/resume (see bug #437677). John, re Comment #2: I've done a quick search on the IWL Bugzilla and nothing concrete on this has turned up. Do you want me to try enabling ucode debugging and report it to them? Currently only rawhide kernels have support for "EU", so you probably want to try "JP" for now. As for the ucode debugging, if you are willing to do that it will probably be very helpful...thanks! OK, you were right... I tried kernel-2.6.25.9-37.fc8 with ieee80211_regdom="JP" and it appeared to behave. So I've no idea what EU was doing... closing as NOTABUG. |
Description of problem: Putting the line options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=64 in /etc/modprobe.conf to enable channels 12 and 13 (used by some APs in Europe) results in erratic behaviour from iwl4965. The system becomes very sluggish every few seconds. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8 iwl4965-firmware-4.44.1.20-1 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ensure cfg80211 is loaded with ieee80211_regdom=64. 2. Reload iwl4965, iwlcore, mac80211 and cfg80211. Actual results: Very sluggish system, multiple ucode errors seen in dmesg (attached). Expected results: Euro channel access points detected and used.