From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivo van Doorn Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] d80211, rt2x00: fixes Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:56:57 +0100 Message-ID: <200612131856.58877.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <20061213180032.241265000.midnight@suse.cz> <20061213171205.GB26415@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <1166031523.4741.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Jiri Benc , "John W. Linville" , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:9860 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965062AbWLMR5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:57:11 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so584429nfa for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:57:09 -0800 (PST) To: Dan Williams In-Reply-To: <1166031523.4741.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 13 December 2006 18:38, Dan Williams wrote: > 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? rt2x00 completely uses the dscape stack, so I am not sure how he is managing this wpa without wpa_supplicant with rt2x00. Lennart, are you using rt2x00 or the legacy rt2500 driver? > > 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. :) Ivo