[CentOS] iwl4965 causes soft lockups
Ned Slider
ned at unixmail.co.uk
Wed Sep 9 01:20:56 UTC 2009
Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Annoying issue.. my ThinkPad T61 has an iwl4965 wireless card. When I
> have the wireless switch on, I experience a lot of issues.. system keeps
> freezing..unfreezing..freezing..etc.
>
> Sometimes, a soft lockup is logged to /var/log/messages.
>
> psmouse.c also sometimes throws an error saying the mouse lost
> synchronization.
>
> Obviously, this is causing the system to freeze for a sec and throws
> everything off.
>
> This is the case with both iwl4965-firmware ver 228.57.1.21 and 228.57.2.23.
>
There is an updated firmware available:
http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-1.elrepo.noarch.rpm
although I'm not sure it will particularly help with your issue.
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