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

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

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:02 -0600 (MDT)
jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.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?

Re: 2.6.27-rc3-git6 iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled

[jmerkey]

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:02 -0600 (MDT)
> jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.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?
>

No.  2.6.26 It was actually a little worse, and the git6 was an
improvement since I was at least able to get past DHCP and obtain an
address, after which is died.  The failure is the driver stops receiving
packets, and if you rmmod/modprobe (reload) the driver , then it will work
again and lock up immediately following 'dhclient <interface>'.   tcpdump
-n -i <if> will work hit or miss before the lockup.

Jeff