Bugzilla – Bug 121955
TX_POWER failure for ipw2200 on Travelmate 8101
Last modified: 2007-02-16 14:13:18 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.
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!
By "ioapic needs to be turned on" you mean enabled on the kernel command line? Jiri and Jiri, can you please look into this?
I mean I need the following kernel command line: root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x314 selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent apic
Please provide dmesg output without the patch applied, dmesg output with the patch and apic switch, lspci output and /proc/interrupts content.
Created attachment 57764 [details] Dmesg with patch and apic
Created attachment 57765 [details] Dmesg without patch and apic
Created attachment 57766 [details] lspci output
Created attachment 57767 [details] /proc/interrupts
Created attachment 57869 [details] acer-apic.patch Could you please test with the attached patch (and with apic switch) and send dmesg output?
Created attachment 58143 [details] Dmesg with suse apic patch
No reaction on this bug for a long time. Closing as CANTFIX.