From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755690AbYL2BfM (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:35:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751124AbYL2Be5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:34:57 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:39654 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751078AbYL2Be4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:34:56 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.36,293,1228118400"; d="scan'208";a="418168963" Subject: Re: Firmware errors with ipw2200 when connected to an WPA-enabled AP From: Zhu Yi To: Mihai Moldovan Cc: LKML , James Ketrenos , "Chatre, Reinette" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <4954D478.8090408@ionic.de> References: <495443E6.404@ionic.de> <1230260706.27521.15.camel@debian> <4954D478.8090408@ionic.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:33:55 +0800 Message-Id: <1230514435.6688.15.camel@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 20:56 +0800, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > So is this all actually known and no bug? Whilst the connection drops > in > idle mode are doing no harm, the sporadic problems on full load are > some > sort of a problem because no traffic is transfered for some seconds, > although the connections per se remain intact. > > Or... well, is this simply not fixable? :) It is a bug. Should be related to firmware. We can fix it but it takes some time. Thanks, -yi