https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852249 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852249#c0 Summary: iwlwifi poor performance and microcode error Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: albert.passalacqua@gmail.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=569055) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=569055) Error message from iwlwifi in /var/log/messages User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 I have an Intel wireless card (hwinfo below), and iwlwifi consistently has very poor performance and returns an error message concerning a SW microcode error, followed by a dump. After that network is unusable because of the very poor performance (of the order of few kb/s). --- hwnfo --wlan output--- 17: PCI 800.0: 0282 WLAN controller [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: y9sn.IHP9NLuH9L8 Parent ID: hoOk.iaAeWBzR77D SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:08:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:08:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Intel WLAN controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x088e SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x4460 Revision: 0x24 Driver: "iwlwifi" Driver Modules: "iwlwifi" Device File: wlan0 Features: WLAN Memory Range: 0xd1600000-0xd1601fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 49 (no events) HW Address: c4:85:08:56:58:51 Link detected: yes WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 5.18 5.2 5.22 5.24 5.26 5.28 5.3 5.32 5.5 5.52 5.54 5.56 5.58 5.6 5.62 5.64 5.66 5.68 5.7 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d0000088Esv00008086sd00004460bc02sc80i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: iwlwifi is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe iwlwifi" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge) Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.