Bug 121955

Summary:	TX_POWER failure for ipw2200 on Travelmate 8101
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Frank Fischer <frank_fischer>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Jiri Benc <jbenc>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	frank_fischer, jbohac
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Dmesg with patch and apic Dmesg without patch and apic lspci output /proc/interrupts acer-apic.patch Dmesg with suse apic patch

Description Frank Fischer 2005-10-10 13:11:12 UTC

The wlan can't be activated successfully on an Acer Travelmate 8101. The related
dmesg is:
ipw2200: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.6
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[00c09f0000423950]
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
ipw2200: Unable to initialize device after 5 attempts.
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:03.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:03.0 failed with error -5

The above error occurs only with HW switch OFF. 
I remember that the same error occurred on my SuSE 9.4. But then I installed
ipw2200 1.0.6 and it worked perfectly including LED. There is a thread about the
same/similar (?) problem on the ipw2200 mailing list: 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel/6417
However no solution is given. Btw, OpenSuSE 10.1 Alpha 1 has the same behavior.

Comment 1 Frank Fischer 2005-10-13 00:56:28 UTC

This problem can be fixed with the kernel patch you can find at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel/6541
In addition loapic needs to be turned on!

Comment 2 Olaf Kirch 2005-11-15 10:28:17 UTC

By "ioapic needs to be turned on" you mean enabled on the kernel command
line?

Jiri and Jiri, can you please look into this?

Comment 3 Frank Fischer 2005-11-16 19:31:40 UTC

I mean I need the following kernel command line:
root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x314 selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent apic

Comment 4 Jiri Benc 2005-11-18 11:11:35 UTC

Please provide dmesg output without the patch applied, dmesg output with the patch and apic switch, lspci output and /proc/interrupts content.

Comment 5 Frank Fischer 2005-11-18 21:55:58 UTC

Created attachment 57764 [details]
Dmesg with patch and apic

Comment 6 Frank Fischer 2005-11-18 21:56:39 UTC

Created attachment 57765 [details]
Dmesg without patch and apic

Comment 7 Frank Fischer 2005-11-18 21:57:40 UTC

Created attachment 57766 [details]
lspci output

Comment 8 Frank Fischer 2005-11-18 21:58:33 UTC

Created attachment 57767 [details]
/proc/interrupts

Comment 9 Jiri Benc 2005-11-21 13:11:06 UTC

Created attachment 57869 [details]
acer-apic.patch

Could you please test with the attached patch (and with apic switch) and send dmesg output?

Comment 10 Frank Fischer 2005-11-22 21:24:20 UTC

Created attachment 58143 [details]
Dmesg with suse apic patch

Comment 11 Matej Horvath 2007-02-16 14:13:18 UTC

No reaction on this bug for a long time. Closing as CANTFIX.