Most recent ipw2200 where this bug did not occur: using 2.6.14 and the external ipw2200-source (1.0.8-1) and ieee80211-source (1.1.6-2) from Debian, the card worked without problems. Distribution: Debian Hardware Environment: Samsung M40+ laptop 0000:02:07.0 0280: 8086:4220 (rev 05) 0000:02:07.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) Software Environment: from dmesg: ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection I have the ipw-2.4 firmware installed in /lib/firmware: $ md5sum ipw-2.4-* bb9b6e2e5522ac13518330d954387f05 ipw-2.4-boot.fw 7ef54b582a45da44cfe8604a5d7a4e6d ipw-2.4-bss.fw 99fdbf6d98a9bc3a2084583fe13f07df ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw 907d750e7f277088cb7f6169c1c00813 ipw-2.4-ibss.fw 07a7d1d4c87e04036845ef6f6fb1b193 ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw b62bdbbf640ede966c8d58e6432d196b ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw bd1c3ea4da25b64085fc618c5107ed75 ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw Problem Description: After displaying the message "eth0: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via ieee_device->is_queue_full." in dmesg, the networks stopped working. ifdown/ifup restored the card to a working state. Steps to reproduce: iwconfig eth0: eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"tunet" Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.422 GHz Cell: 02:00:EE:5F:23:00 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality=95/100 Signal level=-31 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 After short time (several minutes) and a bit traffic, the interface stopped working. After reconfiguring the interface dmesg said: ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured. ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists. I'll attach the error log to the bug.
Created attachment 6782 [details] The error log from my ipw2200 from /sys/class/net/eth0/device/error
Created attachment 6783 [details] The error log from my ipw2200 from /sys/class/net/eth0/device/error
Created attachment 6899 [details] stop queueing when there is no more room available Patch applies against 2.6.15-rc7. Please test.
I tried this patch against the same kernel version I reported the problem against (2.6.15-rc4-0experimental.1 from debian) and while the driver still reports firmware errors, it doesn't lock up anymore. Neither in managed nor in ad-hoc mode. Thanks for your time and work!
I'm now running Debians 2.6.15-3 and have never again felt this problem. Therefore I thankfully close the report.