Re: iwl4965 oops in 2.6.26-rc5 x86_64

[Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>]

Tomas Winkler skrev:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org> wrote:
>> Tomas Winkler skrev:
>>> I'm not sure what distro are you running I haven't seen this
>>> ifcfg-wlan0 config options
>>> on my system but can it be that ifcg-wlan0 tries to set wep key which
>>> will conflict
>>> with wpa_supplicant setting. Can you try to remove this line from that
>>> file
>>>
>>> ifcfg-wlan0 -
>>> --- cut ---
>>> WIRELESS_ENC_KEY='s:*************************'
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>> The distro is Mandriva Cooker (development) but we have the same in Mandriva
>> 2008.1 Spring.
>>
>> Now this has not been any problem with kernels older than 2.6.25, so it's a
>> regression, isn't it? I mean, shouldn't the module protect itself against
>> empty variables?
>>
> This is not really regression. What happen is that we've enabled hw
> crypto acceleration by default so when
> you switched back to sw crypto it still worked.

Yeah, you're right.
I forgot about that.

> There is bug no question, I believe it's the same bug as Ian Schram
> and Joonwoo Park reported (PSK key is longer then 128 WEP Key)
> 

Any patch ready for testing ?

>> And that config option also exist in Redhat initscripts ifup-wireless...
>>
>> Anyway, you found the initial problem, as the kernel now booted without an
>> oops, and seems to work, but:
>>
> 
> Try to disable this one from th config file MAC80211_DEBUG_PACKET_ALIGNMENT
> 

That did it, thanks.

Thomas