From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fix WX and association related races Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:04:16 -0500 Message-ID: <451C0090.10109@lwfinger.net> References: <200609271726.34305.mb@bu3sch.de> <1159455169.2642.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <451BE74F.3010908@lwfinger.net> <200609281135.24720.flamingice@sourmilk.net> <451BEFB8.8000402@lwfinger.net> <20060928163135.GH8121@knob.reflex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Williams , Michael Buesch , linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:37525 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751942AbWI1REn (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:04:43 -0400 To: Jason Lunz In-Reply-To: <20060928163135.GH8121@knob.reflex> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jason Lunz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:52:24AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> I had very good luck with my first AP, a Linksys WRT54G V1, that I >> bought a second when the power supply failed in the first. Little did >> I know that a VxWorks license costs less than the extra memory needed >> to run Linux. Or was it to defeat the open-source alternatives for the >> AP? > > last I checked, linksys (cisco?) still sells the linux-compatible > version as the WRT54GL. <- note the extra 'L'. I know, but have decided to stay with V5 (and bitch a lot) as others are likely to suffer from the same problems as I do. As many of them would never try alternate firmware, we need to provide the workarounds. If I'm using one of the brain-dead APs, I get the symptoms first hand and can tell when they are fixed. Larry