Hello. Today I tried to use wpa_supplicant version 0.6.8 with -Dnl80211 switch, in order to confirm that setting the country code in the configuration file works. My zd1211rw-based card works for a short time, and then I get a kernel panic. Sometimes the bug can be reproduced with just a few seconds of flood ping, and sometimes the card survives 100 MB of data transfer. The problem didn't exist with the stock driver included in linux-2.6.28. There are several different panic messages, the common thing is "Fatal exception in interrupt". Without uvesafb, they also include "zd_op_tx+0x98/0x1cc [zd1211rw]" as the last line, but with uvesafb, this sometimes changes to "rate_control_get_rate+0xb7/0xc3 [mac80211]". Sometimes the kernel becomes tainted with G and W flags (what do they mean?), but there were two untainted cases. The card is in ad-hoc mode, if that matters, and the rate control algorithm is minstrel. WEP is used, because WPA+ad-hoc doesn't work with this card (should it?). Screen photos from all cases of panic are available at the following URL: http://picasaweb.google.com/patrakov/KernelPanic?authkey=Gv1sRgCKn5ne2jqbLYpAE&feat=directlink -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- 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
