Fedora 17 wireless disconnection

[wabrosch]

Hi,
a few days ago I installed F17.
Now I have a problem. At heavy wireless load it disconnects about every 5 min from my wireless router. then I have to manualy refresh wireless connection of F17.

Here the specifications:
Notebook Lenovo W520

Wireless Card:

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 54
        Memory at f4900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

and this is the error message I get from the log:

Jun 11 11:32:14 seventeen kernel: [116537.166085] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Queue 11 stuck for 2000 ms.
Jun 11 11:32:14 seventeen kernel: [116537.166088] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Current SW read_ptr 100 write_ptr 67
Jun 11 11:32:14 seventeen kernel: [116537.166139] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Current HW read_ptr 100 write_ptr 67
Jun 11 11:32:14 seventeen kernel: [116537.166140] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: On demand firmware reload
Jun 11 11:32:14 seventeen kernel: [116537.166874] ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested
Jun 11 11:32:14 seventeen kernel: [116537.166976] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
Jun 11 11:32:14 seventeen kernel: [116537.167197] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1

Thanks for any help.

[wabrosch]

has anybody any hints?

[tjwhaynes]

This isn't help, just a me too. I have a Lenovo W510 running F17. I've been running since the alpha a couple of months back, and this has only recently starting plaguing me (since 14th Juner 2012 or so). I find that if I sit close enough to the router to hit 100% signal, then the connection is stable. Sitting another six feet away, so that the signal strength registers 80 or so, and the connection will then drop within a couple of minutes.

Running more heavy work through the wlan0 interface seems to make it worse, so light web browsing is fine, heavy remote Lotus Notes database usage takes it out.

---------- Post added at 08:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:44 PM ----------

OOo - could be this bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825491

---------- Post added at 09:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:45 PM ----------

Try updating to the new 3.4.2 kernel (should be available right now on the main fedora repository, probably tomorrow for most of the mirrors) or use a 3.3.x kernel until it becomes available.

[testtesttest]

Well bad news: that is the result of buying CRAP. This is a problem Intel is aware of for many years now and they are doing NOTHING (search for iwl4965 with same problems). Intel doesn't mean quality any more..same as Thinkpads don't hold the good old IBM-quality-standard anymore. Buy a card with Atheros-Chipset and you'll be happy.