From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:38:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020602233849.GA9381@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020522103834.B10921@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <E17Aams-0002Ue-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020523012517.GM1001@zax> <1022697627.9255.272.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:40:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 02:25, David Gibson wrote:
> > The signal/noise bit is probably a red herring. We have problems with
> > the reporting of this, but it's mostly cosmetic. I seem to have
> > confusing and contradictory information about how to interpret the
> > values the firmware reports.
>
> Ok the old driver gets the noise level right, the newer one got it
> wrong, the current one gets it wrong. The good news is the old one
> works, the new one didnt, the current 2.4.19pre one does...
Um, ok, now I'm a bit lost. I'm guessing by "old driver" you mean the
pre 2.4.18 one (0.06f?) by "new driver" you mean the one in 2.4.18 and
"current driver" means the one in 2.4.19pre (0.11b) - i.e. newer than
the "new" one. Is that right?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-02 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-22 17:38 Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17 Jean Tourrilhes
2002-05-22 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 18:17 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2002-05-23 1:27 ` David Gibson
2002-05-23 1:25 ` David Gibson
2002-05-29 18:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 17:42 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2002-06-02 23:38 ` David Gibson [this message]
2002-06-03 1:08 ` Alan Cox
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2002-05-27 9:27 ` Peter Chubb
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2002-05-23 3:21 Erik McKee
2002-05-22 0:06 Peter Chubb
2002-05-22 1:53 ` David Gibson
2002-05-22 13:16 ` Alan Cox
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