> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:02 -0600 (MDT) > jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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? > No. 2.6.26 It was actually a little worse, and the git6 was an improvement since I was at least able to get past DHCP and obtain an address, after which is died. The failure is the driver stops receiving packets, and if you rmmod/modprobe (reload) the driver , then it will work again and lock up immediately following 'dhclient <interface>'. tcpdump -n -i <if> will work hit or miss before the lockup. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
