netdev - Re: zd1211rw (2.6.26.5) and ipv6

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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:02:45 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka Savola <pekkas@...core.fi>
To:	Victor NOEL <victor.noel@...zydwarves.org>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zd1211rw (2.6.26.5) and ipv6

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Victor NOEL wrote:
> It looks like no one is interested in this, but I found something
> else about this problem and maybe this will interest someone :)
>
> I find a way to make it work : when I do, for example, a ping6
> www.kame.net, like I said, nothing happens, but if, at the same
> time, in another terminal I run "tcpdump -i wlan0 ip6" to see
> what is happening, then the ping6 just starts to work !

Yeah, this seems to happen from time to time. :-(

Earlier this year, zd1211rw (all mac80211 stack users, really) were 
broken in a similar fashion, and you could workaround this by running 
tcpdump like you described:

http://www.mail-archive.com/git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org/msg41572.html

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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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