From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754494AbYHTRwe (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:52:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752274AbYHTRwY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:52:24 -0400 Received: from 166-70-238-42.ip.xmission.com ([166.70.238.42]:56634 "EHLO ns1.wolfmountaingroup.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752188AbYHTRwY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:52:24 -0400 Message-ID: <1749.69.2.248.210.1219253222.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:02 -0600 (MDT) Subject: 2.6.27-rc3-git6 busted-ass iwl3945 driver drops packets with WEP enabled From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Jeff