On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 09:36:33PM +0200, Infoomatic wrote: > hi, > I upgraded my old notebook to 6.1. However, I am experiencing hickups with > wifi (no problems with 6.0) > some lines in dmesg: > > iwi0 at pci1 dev 13 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" rev 0x05: irq 11, > address 00: > ..... > iwi0: fatal firmware error > iwi0: timeout waiting for master > iwi0: fatal firmware error > iwi0: timeout waiting for master > iwi0: fatal firmware error > iwi0: fatal firmware error > iwi0: fatal firmware error > iwi0: timeout waiting for master > iwi0: unknown authentication state 1 > > Any advice? >
iwi(4) was entirely broken since the WPA security patch for 6.0. I made it work again for 6.1 but also saw these firmware errors occasionally. But I thought these errors were already present in 6.0 and before. It looks like that's not the case, and there is even more left to fix...
