Re: Faulty wireless card?

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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Dell XPS M1210 which has a ipw3945 wireless card, which up
> until this morning was associating with access points with no problem.
> However, this morning it no longer works - NetworkManager no longer
> lists any wireless networks, iwlist scan reports no access points etc.
> I am strongly suspecting that, since nothing else changed, and since
> other computers still connect to the access point fine, that the
> wireless card has turned faulty. Is there any test I can do to verify
> this unambiguously?

Did your firmware package get updated, or your kernel?

# rpm -qa --last | tac

Take a look in dmesg, I just got bounced off my 3945 with this

wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:11:50:ad:ce:38 - assume out of range
iwl3945: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x82000008.
iwl3945: Error Reply type 0x00000000 cmd REPLY_SCAN_CMD (0x80) seq
0x442B ser 0x00000000
iwl3945: Can't stop Rx DMA.
wlan0: failed to restore operationalchannel after scan
iwl3945: No space for Tx
iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_ADD_STA: iwl_enqueue_hcmd failed: -28
iwl3945: No space for Tx
iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_TX_PWR_TABLE_CMD: iwl_enqueue_hcmd failed: -28
wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:50:ad:ce:38

Bleargh.

-Andy


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