Suse 11.1 locks up with Intel 3945ABG wireless card

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Dell Inspiron 1501E

KDE 3.5.10

Scenario 1:

Connect wirelessly and the entire computer locks up. The num lock, caps lock and wireless lights pulse rhythmically. Can’t kill X, three finger salute doesn’t work have to hold the power switch until it powers down.

Scenario 2:

Firefox 3.0.10, Seamonkey, Konqueror, Epiphany all just spontaneously close at random on random sites.

Neither scenario takes very long. Generally less than 30 seconds. If it just closes the browser, I can re-open for a few more seconds, but if it locks . . .

Any suggestions?

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Google provided this:
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver for Linux

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Mini-PCI Express Adapter - ThinkWiki
Iwl3945 - ThinkWiki

Perhaps wait for some of the wireless experts to respond (lwfinger openSUSE Forums - View Profile: lwfinger
Akoellh openSUSE Forums - View Profile: Akoellh)

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One of those links shows that with Kernel 2.6.24 it’s part of the kernel. I think I’m good on that.

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This is mine from su terminal: lspci -v

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation ThinkPad R60e/X60s
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 220
Memory at dfcff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq+ ACSVoil-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP+ BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 14, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 3a-bc-9c-ff-ff-3c-1f-00
Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
Kernel modules: iwl3945

lspci -k

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
Kernel modules: iwl3945

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It might be something with the driver, I just tried to connect the wireless and instant Scenario 1.

Here’s my output of the above command:

lspci -v

0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1020
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4348
Memory at ecfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP+ Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
Capabilities: [140]
Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
Kernel modules: iwl3945[/size]

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This is yours and the driver looks ok

0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1020
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4348
Memory at ecfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSVoil-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP+ Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 55-66-7c-ff-ff-d2-19-00
Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
Kernel modules: iwl3945

Check the wireless section of the forum or wait for further replies[/size]

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Ok. Thanks. Will keep plugging away at it.

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Have removed/disabled beagle?
Now you removed some of that output I can’t check - But what graphics are you?
Are you using desktop effects?
Have you disabled IPv6

Have you tried failsafe boot?

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I taboo beagle and kerry. They never get installed.
Nvidia GO7300
No desktop effects.
Haven’t disabled IPv6 but will try that. I think I tried the failsafe login but don’t remember will try that as well.

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Could be the drivers, some people have reported problems with intel drivers. Have you tried the compat-wireless drivers ? get them here Index of /repositories/home:/Akoellh

Andy

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might or might not be related, but I was having a lockup issue with that same type wireless nic when resuming and supending my laptop. If your caps, numlock and scrollock keys are blinking, it indicates a kernel panic.

The thing that initialy worked for me was to downgrade the kernel to the release version on the install media…

which kernel version are you running?

note: later on I found the source of my issues had to do with manually unloading the iwl3945 driver in a custom sleep scirpt i was running. This was specific to my setup… after removing that command from the sleep script the new kernel(s) is working without a hitch… no idea why only later kernel versions seem affected by the driver module unload at sleep on my system.

good luck,
wj