From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754170AbYHUAvN (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:51:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751813AbYHUAu5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:50:57 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48565 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708AbYHUAu4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:50:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:50:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc3-git6 busted-ass iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled Message-Id: <20080820175054.0795eecb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1749.69.2.248.210.1219253222.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> References: <1749.69.2.248.210.1219253222.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?