Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4348 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750877AbYBZUDr (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:03:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:48:38 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Chris Clayton Cc: Ivo Van Doorn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, stefano.brivio@polimi.it, johannes@sipsolutions.net Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver Message-ID: <20080226194838.GD3013@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080226_200353_026053_3FC82483) References: <200802252104.32416.chris2553@googlemail.com> <200802261911.39577.chris2553@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200802261911.39577.chris2553@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:11:39PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > Sorry, but that's not the case. I find the same results as without the > patches. With the parameter set to 'pid', the network connection fails very > quickly, but with it set to 'simple' I can ping and ftp files to and from my > laptop as much as I like and the connection stays up. In fact, if anything > the patches seem to have made the network even more fragile, in that it fails > almost instantly once I start some network activity ( < 10 pings). > > I'm sure this is not the hardware - it works perfectly with Windows XP, with > 2.6.23.14 plus the out-of-tree rt61 driver from serialmonkey, with the > in-tree driver from 2.6.24.x and with 2.6.25-rc3 with the mac82011's > ieee80211_default_rc_algo parameter set to 'simple'. At last! Vindication for insisting that we keep 'simple' around! Bwahahaha! :-) So, am I to understand that 'pid' works find for you with rtl8180? If so, then I wonder if Stefano and Ivo can help us figure-out what kind of problem is sensitive to both driver _and_ rate control algorithm? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com