Description of problem: Establishment of the very slow wifi connection to the module iwlwifi since moving to kernel 4.4. The problem is not present with old kernel like 4.1 Hardware is : Lenovo Thinkpad T410S with the following wifi module 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 2x2 AGN Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi Kernel modules: iwlwifi At the startup, we can see in the dmesg file, the following errors [8.554303] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control [ 8.568225] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode failed with error -2 [ 8.568230] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper and a few later, the second part [ 19.658175] xt_addrtype: ipv6 does not support BROADCAST matching [ 61.917777] [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun [ 61.918199] [drm:intel_pch_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun [ 68.568777] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode failed with error -2 [ 68.568784] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper Note we have found a workaround. Problem disappear when we enter the two following command. "cd /lib/firmware ln -s iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 4.4.xx How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Mageia with a kernel 4.4 2. See the error messages in the dmeg.log 3.
Created attachment 8372 [details] lscpi -k
Created attachment 8373 [details] dmesg command
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode is also missing in cauldron: [marja@cldrn_64 ~]$ ls -al /lib/firmware | grep iwlwifi-6000 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 454608 jul 12 21:46 iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444128 jul 12 21:46 iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677296 jul 12 21:46 iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679436 jul 12 21:46 iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode [marja@cldrn_64 ~]$
CC: (none) => marja11Version: 5 => CauldronAssignee: bugsquad => kernelSource RPM: (none) => kernel-firmware-nonfreeWhiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO
Should be fixed with kernel-4.4.22-1.mga5 released in: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0345.html
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => tmbResolution: (none) => FIXED