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December 3rd, 2007 07:00

[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

Message Edited by Priit Tamboom on 12-22-2007 01:17 AM

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December 3rd, 2007 12:00

Can't help with Linus, but I may be able to help with Windows. 
 
When you installed Windows XP, did you load the Notebook System software, Chipset, then video driver in that order?
 
Have you pressed FN + F2 to ensure wireless is enabled?
 
Is the wireless detected in the BIOS?

December 4th, 2007 03:00

Hi dageezerus,

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.
Priit

December 22nd, 2007 03:00

Ok, I have got a little smarter now. ipw3945 is "older" driver and new one is iwl3945. linux.dell.com wiki has got nice howto: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.10/Issues/ipw3945_Wireless_Network_Module_Issues

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