Hello,

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 06:47:31AM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Tomáš Janoušek wrote:

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I think all those T520 and T420s models have exactly the same wireless card. I
don't see why they wouldn't have. :-)

Well, laptops models have common mainboards, but peripheral components
might not be identical. Especially wireless card might vary from unit
to unit. For example:

T520 with iwl6300:
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/client/show/pub_0cbc8731-47d3-4ecf-8add-aa832b34edcd
T520 with iwl1000:
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/client/show/pub_02f601d6-7a93-4c0e-bc01-a4a95db36086 
T520 with iwl6205:
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/client/show/pub_0232252f-75a9-4050-a69b-c8e95e00eaf2

These links don't work, but my colleagues indeed do have iwl6205. They are,
however, running 64-bit kernels, so I tried doing the same and I haven't been
able to reproduce the issue for the past few hours. So it seems like it
happens on 32-bit kernels only. This looks like a good workaround (better than
getting a different wireless card), so I can run 64-bit during working days
and experiment with 32-bit when I have time to debug this.

Could you please elaborate on that thing with enabling IOMMU? The only thing I
know about IOMMU is that it is somehow related to VT-d (passing whole PCI
devices to virtual guests), and that I have to pass intel_iommu=off to kernel
command line, otherwise the machine doesn't even boot. Is that a problem?

Kind regards,
-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/