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niklep

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Registered: 2011-09-03

Posts: 2

Broken WiFi. Intel 5100ABG

Hello. I have a problem after update from 2.6.38 to 3.0.3 kernel. Also many other packages have been updated. And it brokes my WiFi. I try install LTS kernel and downgrade linux-firmware, but it's not helped.
Can anyone help?

Dmesg output:

[nik@nik ~]$ dmesg | grep iwl
[    9.641701] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks
[    9.641796] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
[    9.642000] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    9.642113] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    9.642201] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100ABG REV=0x54
[    9.683198] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
[    9.683365] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[    9.868719] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
[   17.891495] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
[   18.028016] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 8.24.2.12
[   18.174874] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio
[   18.175032] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc
[   18.175173] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX
[   18.175304] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
[   20.002816] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x2000000.

niklep

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Registered: 2011-09-03

Posts: 2

Re: Broken WiFi. Intel 5100ABG

I resolve this problem by renaming SSID from "406" to other not-numeral.
Log from /var/log/messages:

Sep  4 14:48:03 localhost NetworkManager[1071]: get_uchar_array: 802-11-wireless / ssid ignoring invalid byte element '406' (not  between 0 and 255 inclusive)

WTF???