Comment 39 for bug 1035889

Hi Luis,

thank you very much. It indeed seems to fix the problem I have switched to
11Mbps and I have been working for a few minutes now without any freeze.

Thank you very much again.

2012/8/31 Luis Henriques <email address hidden>

> Hi Hossein,
>
> Sorry for taking so long coming back to you. I was able to reproduce
> this issue (got a laptop with similar wireless card), and I believe I
> found the commit that fixes it:
>
> 2655e314c4b204966008689eaf3e87ba1f38d55c iwlwifi: trace debug messages
>
> Aparentely, the issue is caused by an overflow of debug messages, that
> leaves the system in an unusable state.
>
> I've uploaded a new kernel that I would like you to test, to see if it
> fixes the issue:
>
> http://people.canonical.com/~henrix/lp1035889/v2/amd64/
>
> You will still see a few debug messages, but as far as I could
> understand they should be harmless. Please let me know if this works
> for you.
>
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