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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:50:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc3-git6 busted-ass iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:02 -0600 (MDT) jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com wrote: > > On an Acer 9410 laptop with dual core processors, the iwl3945 driver has > intermittment receiver lockup problems (stops receiving packets) using the > Linux iwl3945 drivers with WEP encryption enbaled. The adapter works fine > without WEP or WPA. If the same system is booted to Windows Vista (which > takes about 15 minutes to boot because Vista is a fat slow pig) the > wireless drivers work fine with WEP under Vista on the same system. > > If the system copies the ndis .sys drivers and I build ndiswrapper (which > has to be really hacked up to build on 2.6.27) and use the ndis drivers on > 2.6.27-rc3 with a modified ndiswrapper, they work fine. > > I suspect the firmware or an interaction with the firmware settings since > when the system is booted to Vista after running 2.6.27-rc3 with the > iwl3945 drivers, I have to power cycle the system periodically after > running the iwl3945 driver to get the drivers under Vista to work again, > but not always. > (cc linux-wireless) Was 2.6.26 OK? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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