* Re: 2.6.27-rc3-git6 busted-ass iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled [not found] <1749.69.2.248.210.1219253222.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> @ 2008-08-21 0:50 ` Andrew Morton 2008-08-21 4:27 ` 2.6.27-rc3-git6 " jmerkey 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Andrew Morton @ 2008-08-21 0:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jmerkey; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-wireless 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? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: 2.6.27-rc3-git6 iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled 2008-08-21 0:50 ` 2.6.27-rc3-git6 busted-ass iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled Andrew Morton @ 2008-08-21 4:27 ` jmerkey 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: jmerkey @ 2008-08-21 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: jmerkey, linux-kernel, linux-wireless > 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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