Bug 714590

Summary: Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka>
Component: kernelAssignee: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.1CC: alex, bos, boydjd, cbm, christopher.meiklejohn, chunnayya, extras-orphan, gansalmon, gholms, itamar, jguenther, jhenner, jisakiel, johannbg, jonathan, joshua.bakerlepain, jvcelak, kernel-maint, kmcmartin, madhu.chinakonda, mattdm, mdavis, mglantz, mishu, mkranz, niklas.laxstrom, n.underwood78, pierre-bugzilla, pmrpla, pp, redhat_bugzilla, sgruszka, tjackson, tpelka, vbenes, vendor-redhat, wey-yi.w.guy, woodard, wvega
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-164.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 648732 Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-12-06 13:42:40 UTC Type: ---
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0001-iwlwifi-fix-general-11n-instability.patch none

Description Stanislaw Gruszka 2011-06-20 08:07:39 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #648732 +++

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-06-20 09:59:58 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 3 Stanislaw Gruszka 2011-06-20 13:40:24 UTC
Created attachment 505614 [details]
0001-iwlwifi-fix-general-11n-instability.patch

Proposed patch. Kernel build to test is here:
https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=3412423
(Note no firmware package, for install use "rpm -ivh --force --nodeps")

Comment 4 Vladimir Benes 2011-06-27 13:27:03 UTC
reproducer:
use Intel 5100 wireless device with n (or g/n) wireless AP and perform some video streaming or download huge files 
this test should be longer than 30 minutes

Comment 6 Kyle McMartin 2011-06-29 21:50:14 UTC
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-164.el6

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 13:42:40 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html