IWL3945 problems in 2.6.35-rc1

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>]

Hi,

in 2.6.35-rc1 the wireless became just unusable.

These are problems that I have:

1. very frequent oopses.This appears to be mention on the list already,
but patches I tried don't help.

I currently use this bandaid patch, and I still get some crashes:

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 3e5bffb..1aef988 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -1861,6 +1861,11 @@ static int iwl3945_get_channels_for_scan(struct iwl_priv *priv,
        if (!sband)
                return 0;
 
+       if(!priv->scan_request) {
+               WARN_ON(1);
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        active_dwell = iwl_get_active_dwell_time(priv, band, n_probes);
        passive_dwell = iwl_get_passive_dwell_time(priv, band, vif);


2. mulicast/broadcast is broken.
this results in DHCP non working on open access point.
It seems that DHCP does work on my home wireless, but avahi-autoipd doesn't see any neighbours, and this is annoying.
It can be worked around by doing (sudo ifconfig wlan0 promisc)


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky