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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] d80211, rt2x00: fixes
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166031523.4741.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061213171205.GB26415@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:12 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 06:00:35PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > John, in addition to the previous pull request, please also apply the
> > following two fixes.
> 
> What is the state of the rx2x00 driver by now?  I have been playing
> around with an rt2500 based card, with some success but not enough for
> me to switch over from wired ethernet yet on my machine.  I used to get
> lots of hard lockups, but with the latest cvs snapshot in debian's
> rt2x00-source package, it no longer seems to lockup.  It also now works
> with WPA without using wpa_supplicant (Yay!  Good work.), it does

How, by private ioctls?  That's just wrong; I believe you still need to
go through the 4-way handshake to get the right keying information even
if you use PSK, which means you still need the supplicant, right?

dan

> however very frequently pause the transfer, and then after a while (20
> or 30 seconds probably) it will start moving data again and my transfer
> will continue.  Is this considered normal for now?  My card happens to
> be a linksys WMP54G version 4.0.  At least pauses beat crashes.  It's
> going the right way for a work in progress.
> 
> I guess I should go read the bug tracking system and try out newer cvs
> versions. :)
> 
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> Len Sorensen
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-13 17:00 [PATCH 0/2] d80211, rt2x00: fixes Jiri Benc
2006-12-13 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] rt2x00: fix breakage after pkt_type field was removed Jiri Benc
2006-12-13 17:00   ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-13 17:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] fix some wireless ext stuff Jiri Benc
2006-12-13 17:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] d80211, rt2x00: fixes Lennart Sorensen
2006-12-13 17:38   ` Dan Williams [this message]
2006-12-13 17:56     ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-13 20:54       ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-12-13 20:54     ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-12-13 21:28       ` Ivo Van Doorn
2006-12-13 22:28         ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-12-13 17:49   ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-12-13 20:58     ` Lennart Sorensen

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