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On Sunday 16 November 2008 13:02:54 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Can anyone say: "Yeah, I use the iwl3945 driver with 2.6.26 and it works |
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> flawlessly for me." If so, could you please post your exact kernel |
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> version (for example gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2) and your kernel config? |
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No-one can say that, the driver is buggy. Something to do with waking the card |
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up or bringing it out of deep sleep. Personally, I think it's along the lines |
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of a race condition in how the card is reliably powered up (but that's just |
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be thinking of what's most likely). Intel has a bugzilla, which shows that |
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virtually every distro on all platforms using the 3945 have the identical |
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problem in every kernel version that contains this code: |
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http://intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=1651 |
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We have two options: |
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- get involved, fix it ourselves, submit patch to upstream (intel) |
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- wait for intel to come up with reliable code |
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All the evidence points to intel taking this seriously, it's a popular card |
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and intel wants their stuff to work nicely on linux. So chances are it's a |
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deeper problem that it appears on the surface |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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