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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> We've experienced very high packet loss when using latest
>>> compat-wireless witth iwlwifi driver over 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 stable
>>> kernels. This is not happening with 2.6.26-rc3 as a target kernel (not
>>> sure about rc1 and rc2)
>>> The traffic is UDP TX with large tx buffers ~26000.
>>> We are still investigating yet if someone has any idea please share with us.
>>
>> I can't think of anything off the top of my head, really...
>
> This is something in the network stack. This is also happening with
> ethernet USB devices. Something between 2.6.25 and 2.6.26-rc3 has
> fixed it.
> Have to find what otherwise all the compat-wireless will be unusable for us
> Thanks for the answer anyway.

Either way if you try to port wireless-testing drivers to 2.6.25
you'll probably end up using the same things on compat-wirelesss or
just slightly modified, so if there is an issue regardless it can be
fixed through compat-wireless. Just my $0.02 Rupees.

  Luis
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