DJA wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
What can I do about this error message?
ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
I just now freshly installed Fedora 9 onto a laptop for someone.
It concerns me that dmesg is getting a repeating message
approximately 6 times each minute. The message appeared 54 times
over 10 minutes, then 68 times over the next 10 minutes, and most
recently 59 times over the final 10 minutes. So it is not consistent
with precision, but generally.
The ipw2200 messages have 4 lines before all the incessant repeats:
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZA (11.802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a
channels)
And *now* when I run 'dmesg | grep -i "ipw" | grep -v "Failed to send
", I also get 6 of these messages:
ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
The 6 lines are interspersed among the 539 lines of the "Failed to
send " message, tho in a very inconsistent manner.
First appears the 4 ipw2200 lines about the interface.
Then come about 426 of "Failed to send" followed by 1 line of
"Restarting".
Then come about 124 of "Failed to send" followed by 2 lines of
"Restarting".
Then 1 and 1.
Then 1 and 2.
Then 76 and 1.
Then 1 and 2.
Then 2 and 1.
Then 1 and 1.
Then 18 and 1.
Then 1 and 3.
Then 15 and 4.
Then 1 and 1.
Then 8.
Very inconsistent.
I don't know what to do about the laptop wireless interface beyond
this point.
I'm considering pulling my dsl ethernet line from my PC to plug into
the laptop eth0 to verify that it can access the internet that way.
But if the laptop owner has a wireless AP, he should be able to go
that way. With these 2 error messages repeating this way, something
is obviously amiss, and I have *zero* experience in wireless
troubleshooting.
I don't have a wireless AP here. The wireless on the laptop is
eth1. It also has eth0, which I'm sure is the ethernet plug in the
back.
You need to download and install firmware for the IPW2200 from here:
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php or
directly from Intel's site.
Also make sure you have wpa_supplicant installed (which should be in
the default installation).
How do I check for that? Something by that name seems present. I type
"wpa" and hit TAB+TAB, and wpa_supplicant is one of three things that
appear.
As for downloading, I guess I'm going to have to try to connect my
internet to it. I'll try that now. ... Immediate recognition! Kewl!
Long story short:
The latest files I downloaded are identical to the ones already installed.
Short story long:
The download page has multiple selections according to which version of
ipw2200 driver is being used. dmesg no longer has that info in its
history and I wanted to be sure I didn't make a typo above when I
recreated the messages, so I rebooted. But since rebooting, the error
messages haven't come back. It's been back up for about 21 minutes now
(according to uptime).
I went ahead and downloaded the appropriate package, and unpacked it. I
didn't see the README or INSTALL instruction files that the license told
me to look for. But I'm not sure I'm going to need it. I don't know
how long it was up the first time before it started getting the error,
but so far the error is not occurring this time, even after several
hours. I guess I'll just keep checking back.
Next morning, the error message has returned, at the rate of about 3 per
minute (about half as much as before).
I poked around on the website and found a link for INSTALL. After
reading through the mountain of things it says to do, I finally read
that the .fw files I downloaded must be copied (after doing all the
other things) into /lib/firmware. Just for reference, I ls that
directory and notice that the dates (2006-03-07) and sizes of the
downloaded .fw files are identical. Just for good measure, I diff each
of the three files (even though the INSTALL webpage says there are
supposed to be three others) and no differences are reported back.
While I was doing all that, I had yum update bringing the system up to
date. I doubt that yum did any updates using files that are 30 months
old. When yum finished (late last night), I checked and found no ipw
error messages, so went to bed.
This morning, the ipw error messages were back. Well, not
"message*s*". Just "ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already
sending a command." was back. The "ipw2200: Firmware error detected.
Restarting." message has not appeared.
Any ideas?
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