On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 12:32 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 11:33 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:

quoted

Does wifi stop working after an
error, or there is some other negative impact? Or only that messages
are printed and driver recover itself?

There doesn't seem to be any impact (ie, it might have some impact but
I'm too insensitive to notice). The driver does recover itself and I do
not have to mess with rfkill or "modprobe -r" or whatever. I actually
discovered this because I tend to regularly do
    dmesg -r |  grep "^<[123]>"

to keep myself informed of any kernel errors (or worse). And then these
few dozen lines can't go unnoticed.

0) It's one year later now and this Microcode SW error again showed up
in the logs. I recently upgraded and I haven't kept any logs, but my
guess would be that I have run into that error once every week. (This
laptop is now running a v3.5.3 based kernel as shipped for Fedora 17.)

1) Would you have any suggestions how to pinpoint the cause of this
error? It is mainly annoying, and I managed to ignore it since my
previous message, but I still would like to free the logs from the noise
it makes.


Paul Bolle