iwi leaks memory?

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at icir.org
Thu Feb 15 22:35:52 UTC 2007


will have a look at this.
Which version of if_iwi.c are you using ?

	cheers
	luigi

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0200, V.Chukharev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that iwi driver cannot survive more than just a few cycles of switching down/up.
> In a place with a bad wireless connection I needed to do that quite a number of times
> (that was the simplest way to restore connectivity I knew), and after 5-10 cycles I needed
> to reboot my notebook totally.
> 
> Can anybody with iwi (<Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG>) confirm (or better unconfirm)
> that doing
> 
>     for ii in `jot 100`; do sudo ifconfig iwi0 down; sleep 2; sudo ifconfig iwi0 up; done
> 
> always results in the following messages (and lost connectivity):
> 
> Feb 15 09:43:59 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to UP
> Feb 15 09:44:13 chu kernel: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
> Feb 15 09:44:18 chu kernel: iwi0: device timeout
> Feb 15 09:44:20 chu kernel: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory
> 
> A fix for this would be even better ;))
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> V. Chukharev
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