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[solved] No wireless (ipw3945: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting.)
Hi! I have got some annoying problem with intel wireless 3945abg card on Inspiron 6400. I have got no wireless on boot and I'm forced to use cable. I have tested it with Windows XP and latest Ubuntu 7.10 but the issue is same: no wireless. Google didn't help this time :-( Under linux dmesg: ipw3945: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting. ipw3945: Error Reply type 0x00000005 cmd DAEMON (0x10) seq 0x0406 ser 0x004A0000 ipw3945: Can't stop Rx DMA. hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 4 802.11a channels) ipw3945: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting. ipw3945: Error Reply type 0x00000005 cmd ADD_STA (0x18) seq 0x0407 ser 0x004A0000 ipw3945: Can't stop Rx DMA. ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (13 802.11bg channels, 4 802.11a channels) lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01) 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a) 03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05) 0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) Thanks for any tip! Priit Message Edited by Priit Tamboom on 12-03-2007 03:53 AM
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December 3rd, 2007 12:00
Priit Tamboom
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December 4th, 2007 03:00
Thanks for quick reply! I will write down my ideas just in case for somebody else having similar problem.
I have this notebook almost one year without any problem with wireless (so I have played with bios (enable/disable wireless) as well enable/disable with Fn+F2, so I"m not very nuby for this matter). I suspect that new Ubuntu 7.10 might be related to my problem (but it affects both windows/linux when wireless is gone)
I have got one silly way to get wireless back (both windows/linux):
It comes back when I use cable for all day (with wireless off) and shut notebook off for night. So next morning I got wireless back until for any reboot. If it's gone then I have to make all over again (one day with cable, next day with wireless :-).
I suspect something goes wrong with linux driver ipw3945 (cos using linux all day, and window for testing only).
I have found some similar bug reports:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/118110
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7709
This looks very close what I got (by the way i started to use Icepodder recently to download podcasts, it uses torrent protocol as well, so ipw3945 is real suspect right now).
I'll update about my progress.
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Priit Tamboom
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December 22nd, 2007 03:00