wow, wireless go BOOM!

[elw at stderr.org]

Yes, it sounds very much like what was reported earlier.

Maybe different, though.

Here's a a dmesg dump of the things-going-insane on my ubuntu laptop, from 
eth1 getting ifconfig'ed up to crash (I had to do a full-on 
hold-down-the-power-button reset...).

--elijah


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Dec 10 19:06:34 ubuntu kernel: [  359.208000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): 
eth1: link becomes ready
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: dhco_input_option: Value -1 cannot be 
converted to type L
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: dhco_parse_option_settings: bad option 
setting: new_dhcp_lease_time = -1
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: dhco_input_option: Value -644245096 cannot 
be converted to type L
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: dhco_parse_option_settings: bad option 
setting: new_dhcp_rebinding_time = -644245096
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found 
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth1 for sub-path eth1.dbus.get.host_name
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found 
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth1 for sub-path eth1.dbus.get.domain_name
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found 
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth1 for sub-path eth1.dbus.get.nis_domain
Dec 10 19:06:42 ubuntu dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found 
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth1 for sub-path eth1.dbus.get.nis_servers
Dec 10 19:07:36 ubuntu kernel: [  420.464000] hermes @ 0001e100: Card 
removed while waiting for command 0x0021 completion.
Dec 10 19:07:36 ubuntu kernel: [  420.692000] hermes @ 0001e100: Card 
removed while issuing command 0x0021.
Dec 10 19:07:36 ubuntu kernel: [  420.692000] hermes @ 0001e100: Card 
removed while issuing command 0x0021.
Dec 10 19:07:36 ubuntu kernel: [  420.696000] hermes @ 0001e100: Card 
removed while issuing command 0x0021.
Dec 10 19:07:38 ubuntu kernel: [  422.464000] hermes @ 0001e100: Card 
removed while issuing command 0x0021.
Dec 10 19:07:38 ubuntu last message repeated 3 times
Dec 10 19:07:40 ubuntu kernel: [  424.464000] hermes @ 0001e100: Card 
removed while issuing command 0x0021.
Dec 10 19:07:40 ubuntu last message repeated 2 times
Dec 10 19:07:42 ubuntu kernel: [  426.464000] printk: 1 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:07:42 ubuntu kernel: [  426.464000] hermes @ 0001e100: Card 
removed while issuing command 0x0021.
Dec 10 19:08:13 ubuntu kernel: [  430.712000] printk: 23 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:08:49 ubuntu kernel: [  435.692000] printk: 176 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:08:49 ubuntu kernel: [  440.712000] printk: 178 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:09:01 ubuntu kernel: [  445.700000] printk: 177 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:09:01 ubuntu kernel: [  450.700000] printk: 177 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:09:01 ubuntu kernel: [  455.692000] printk: 180 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:09:01 ubuntu kernel: [  460.712000] printk: 178 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:09:01 ubuntu kernel: [  465.700000] printk: 177 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:09:01 ubuntu kernel: [  470.696000] printk: 177 messages 
suppressed.
Dec 10 19:09:01 ubuntu kernel: [  475.696000] printk: 177 messages 
suppressed.



On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Rob Savoye wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:05:59 -0700
> From: Rob Savoye <rob at welcomehome.org>
> Cc: devel at laptop.org
> Subject: Re: wow, wireless go BOOM!
> 
> Ricardo Carrano wrote:
>
>> Up to the present moment, there is no other known scenario where a group of XOs could
>> disturb a network. So, if you update the firmware and still get general problems in the
>> network, we are really interested in repeating this.
>
>   Actually this sounds similar to the problems we had a few weeks ago a
> a conference in CA. There is a bug report open on it already. As the
> conference was a temporary thing, we can't reproduce the exact situation.
>
>   Some of the symptoms you posted look different, but the 3 X0s at the
> conference were all running build 406 still. One of the ideas at the
> conference was the density of other APs was part of the problem. This is
> the part that sounds real similar...
>
> 	- rob -
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