linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.27-rc3-git6 busted-ass iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled

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Message-Id: <20080820175054.0795eecb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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?
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