From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.0.7-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: I just installed RHEL ES 4 U2 on a IBM Thinkpad X31 and setup the wireless card. It has a 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04). To install the wireless support I just typed "up2date ipw2100" and it downloaded and installed the package from the official repositories from Red Hat Inc. The installation was successful, and the wireless seems to be working just fine, but I noticed something that is not right in the /var/log/messages file: I got TONS of messages like this: kernel: ipw2100: ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart. And I also noticed that the wireless Icon monitor is always showing drops of the connection. Is there a workaround for this problem? Or is this a kernel or ipw2100 bug? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-22.EL ipw2100-1.3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RHEL ES 4 U2 2.up2date ipw2100 3.start to use the wireless connection 4.got lots of connection drops but the network seems to be working ok Actual Results: in the /var/log/messages file: I got TONS of messages like this: kernel: ipw2100: ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart. Expected Results: no erros about it. Additional info:
Which ipw2100 firmware package are you using? rpm -qa | grep ipw2100-firmware
Well, as I mentioned before, its ipw2100-firmware-1.3-1 Hope it helps! If you need anyother info, let me know.
I have test kernels w/ a bunch of wireless updates available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ Would you mind giving them a try to see if they work any better for you? Thanks!
Linville, I used the following kernel: kernel-2.6.9-22.8.EL.jwltest.80.i686.rpm Kernel for i686 systems on my IBM Thinkpad X31 Centrino, and my wireless worked perfectly. When a official update will be available to RHEL4 ? Congrats for a good job! Att. Filipe Miranda
Filipe, Thanks for the information! Unfortunately, we are probably too late to get this into Update 3. Hopefully it will be in Update 4. Thanks again!
Created attachment 120571 [details] jwltest-ieee80211-update.patch
Created attachment 120572 [details] jwltest-ipw2100-update.patch
Created attachment 120573 [details] jwltest-ipw2200-update.patch
Created attachment 120574 [details] cisco-vpnclient error messages
Really?? That's too bad! U2 just came out, U3 will take 3-4 months, U4 will be available in 7-8 months!! outch !! thats a lot of time to wait... Is there something you can do about it? Also, this patches fixes the ipw2100 problems but now my cisco-vpnclient software wont compile anymore, I have attached the errors I get. Is there something you can do about it? Regards, FTM
Did you install the matching kernel-devel rpm from the location in comment 4?
Ops! My bad! Installed the kernel-devel and it works just fine the cisco-vpnclient. But are you sure about the fix will not make to U3? Regards, FTM
Linville, I doing intensive testing file tranfers using my wireless card today and I noticed that this Message still occurs: kernel:ipw2100: Fatal Interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart. The size of the files are something like 300MB, 500MB, and even a DVD transfer 4GB. This message appears like after 10 seconds and slows down the transfer to almost 1/2 fo the B(11Mb) throughput. When I tested and there were no errors I tested with small files. I attached a sysreport (notice SELinux is enables but in permissive mode). Thanks a lot
Created attachment 120684 [details] Sysreport from my machine
Created attachment 124706 [details] jwltest-ieee80211-update.patch
Created attachment 124708 [details] jwltest-ipw2100-update.patch
Created attachment 124709 [details] jwltest-ipw2200-update.patch
Test kernels w/ the above patches available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ These are quite a bit later than the previous round, so hopefully they will work better for you. Please give them a try and let me know the results...thanks!
Need feedback ASAP if this is going to be in U4...
Hi Lin, I installed the kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.i686.rpm package, loaded it up and now if I try to load the wireless interface I get the message: eth1: could not initialize WEP: load module ieee80211_crypt_wep Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. So I rolledback to the kernel 2.6.9-34.EL and it worked just as before.
Hmmm...are you by chance specifying a nickname for your wireless device? In fact, ifup-wireless is probably specifying it for you... Can you comment-out the line in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless that looks like this: iwconfig $DEVICE nick "$NICKNAME" >/dev/null 2>&1 Just put a "#" at the beginning of the line, and try again w/ the jwltest.123 (or later) kernel? Thanks!
Lin, this is my configuration file: cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-home DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Wireless DHCP_HOSTNAME=fmiranda.intranet.com ESSID=TEST KEY=11111000011100011 The error reported in my last post happens when I issue the folowing command: ifup home I can try to comment out the line DHCP_HOSTNAME=fmiranda.intranet.com, but it will probably load it up from the DHCP server (since I have fixed ip addresses for some machines on the network using the dhcp server). I will keep you posted. Att. Filipe
Another issue: If I try to recompile que scr package using this command bellow I get the following error: rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm Installing kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/patch-2.6.9-ac11.bz2;441850db: cpio: read error: kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm cannot be installed Is this the correct behavior? or what Am I doing wrong in this case? Att. Filipe Miranda
re: comment 23 -- ifup home is calling ifup-wireless behind the scenes. Please make the change outlined in comment 22 and try again. re: comment 24 -- if I had to guess, it looks like maybe you don't have enough space in the filesystem that holds /usr/src/redhat?
Lin, There is enough space in the FS that holds /usr/src/redhat #df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 7.7G 3.7G 3.7G 51% / /dev/hda1 99M 14M 81M 15% /boot none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 28G 13G 16G 44% /home I commented the line you specified and no success. I tried to comment out the line I suggested and no success. I tried to load the wireless interface manually and no success: iwconfig eth1 essid TEST iwconfig eth1 key 1111111000001111 and I the the same error after I enter this command line. Att. Filipe Miranda
Re: rpmbuild -- I think you need "--target=i686" on the command line, maybe that will help? Regarding the WEP thing, does the device work (other than the error message)? What about if you disable WEP entirely? Does it work then?
Lin, rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm Installing kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/patch-2.6.9-ac11.bz2;44198345: cpio: read error: kernel-2.6.9-34.2.EL.jwltest.123.src.rpm cannot be installed
The source rpms work fine here...perhaps they got corrupted when you downloaded them? Did you test them against the md5sums published with them? If the md5sums are OK, I can only guess that you have a problem on the local machine, like not enough space in /tmp?
I had botched the config, so the wep module was not getting built. These kernels should have the wep module: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ Please give them a try and post the results here...thanks!
Lin, This new release you posted seems to work pretty good. I downloaded the src recompiled on my thinpad nad its working just fine! One issue so far, the network monitor from gnome, wont detect the wifi interface as wifi interface anymore b/c there is no wifi signal strengh icon. I transfered over 1.0GB of data over wifi using your kernel and no wifi driver restarts. Good Job, will these fixes be part of RHEL4 U4? Also did you try anyother type of encription support for this driver? Like WPA? Att. Filipe Miranda
committed in stream U4 build 34.24. A test kernel with this patch is available from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html