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#1 2012-09-20 16:50:36
- r1pp3rj4ck
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Can an iwl4965 driver or the card cause the laptop to randomly freeze?
My laptop randomly freezes sometimes (it's a strange freeze, the screen goes black, nothing's responding, but my LED-s are lighting and the fan is on too). I've never witnessed it actually, I so assumed it's overheating or something. But now I witnessed it and it wasn't warm at all. I have a HP 6910p, 3.3.8-1-ARCH kernel (x86_64) and this is in my errors.log:
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518590] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000000.
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518595] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 228.61.2.24
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518610] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518613] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: Status: 0x000213E4, count: 5
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518757] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: Desc Time data1 data2 line
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518761] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_ERROR (0x000C) 3684301201 0x00000008 0x03130000 208
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518763] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: pc blink1 blink2 ilink1 ilink2 hcmd
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518766] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: 0x0046C 0x06234 0x004C2 0x006DE 0x005D8 0x253001C
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518768] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH register values:
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518781] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_RSCSR_CHNL0_STTS_WPTR_REG: 0X07433b00
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518794] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_RSCSR_CHNL0_RBDCB_BASE_REG: 0X00740d90
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518808] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_RSCSR_CHNL0_WPTR: 0X00000020
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518821] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_MEM_RCSR_CHNL0_CONFIG_REG: 0X00819000
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518834] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_MEM_RSSR_SHARED_CTRL_REG: 0X0000003c
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518847] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_MEM_RSSR_RX_STATUS_REG: 0X03130000
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518861] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_MEM_RSSR_RX_ENABLE_ERR_IRQ2DRV: 0X00000000
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518874] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_TSSR_TX_STATUS_REG: 0X07ff0002
Sep 20 18:25:11 localhost kernel: [30484.518887] iwl4965 0000:10:00.0: FH49_TSSR_TX_ERROR_REG: 0X00000000Any idea why?
Moderator edit: Please use [ code ] tags instead of [ quote ] ones for listings like this. I replaced them for you in order to keep this readable. But do so for yourself in future. -- bernarcher
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#2 2012-09-21 09:31:53
- nTia89
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Re: Can an iwl4965 driver or the card cause the laptop to randomly freeze?
have you recently update your system?
+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
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#3 2012-09-21 14:30:47
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Re: Can an iwl4965 driver or the card cause the laptop to randomly freeze?
Looks like the firmware is doing something funny. Apparently, you have the firmware installed.
I changed the kernel one time, and the intel wireless went from working to not booting.
Sometimes if the connection to the router isn't stable, it can slow things up.
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
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#4 2012-09-21 14:47:34
- r1pp3rj4ck
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Re: Can an iwl4965 driver or the card cause the laptop to randomly freeze?
Tia89: No, I haven't and it's going on since I installed the system I guess.
nomorewindows: My connection to the router seems to be stable (Linksys WRT54GL with OpenWrt Backfire in an apartment the size of about 50-60 m^2, signal level around -80 dBm).
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#5 2012-09-21 15:08:51
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Re: Can an iwl4965 driver or the card cause the laptop to randomly freeze?
Does it help to blacklist the microdode module?
To know or not to know ...
... the questions remain forever.
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#6 2012-09-21 16:45:08
- r1pp3rj4ck
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Re: Can an iwl4965 driver or the card cause the laptop to randomly freeze?
It's not even loaded according to `mkinitcpio -v`
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#7 2012-09-21 18:05:52
- drcouzelis
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Re: Can an iwl4965 driver or the card cause the laptop to randomly freeze?
This brings back bad memories for me. 
I don't know if it's related, but here was my experience: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101844 and someone else that had a similar problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139023
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