[Bug 200509] Re: iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000

[Greg Smith]

I doubt I have exactly the same issue here as other posters.  My problem
is that my Intel 5100AGN wireless works fine against most 802.11B/G
networks, but crashes oddly with a microcode error when I try to connect
to my primary N network.  I even get the right IP address with DHCP, but
I can't actually ping anything.  It looks like the Microcode restart
leaves me in that odd state.

However, I have at least managed to get a useful debug log running
against my Jaunty system.  Took a bit of experimentation though; here's
what I did:

1) Install the iwlwifi-debug-dkms .deb from TJ's PPA area at
https://launchpad.net/~intuitivenipple/+archive/ppa , which you need in
order to have a version of the kernel modules that are configured with
debug support enabled.

2) Tried the instructions shown by "man iwlwifi".  These did not work
for me; I got:

  iwlcore: Unknown parameter `debug'

3) Tried this alternative instead, as suggested from the Intel Wireless
mailing lists:

  modprobe iwlagn debug50=0x43fff

This worked, got lots of additional detail.

Based on that experience, I think the iwlwifi docs need two changes:

-Change "debug" to "debug50" for all the options examples
-The directory for the debug_level control is missing the card location subdirectory.  I found the file in /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwlagn/0000:03:00.0/debug_level on my system. (the 0000:03:00.0 part is missing from the description in the man page).

After those I think that PPA package will be ready for more people to
use.

Here's what the main additional detail when the error pops up looks like
for me:

iwlagn: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x2000000.
iwlagn: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
iwlagn: Status: 0x000212E4, count: 5
iwlagn: Desc        Time       data1      data2      line
iwlagn: SYSASSERT     (#5) 1472749560 0x40808015 0x00008904 1353
iwlagn: blink1  blink2  ilink1  ilink2
iwlagn: 0x03768 0x03768 0x0090E 0x00000
iwlagn: Start IWL Event Log Dump: display count 512, wraps 8

That's followed by a big dump of data.  Attached file has everything.

** Attachment added: "Log file of Microcode SW error log dump"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24509012/iwlagn-20090330-gs.txt.gz

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iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x2000000
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