Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:38:45 +0100
From: Brian Morrison <bdm@fenrir.org.uk>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwl3945 problem with 2.6.25-rc9
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:35:21 -0700
"Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com> wrote:

> On , Brian Morrison  wrote:
> 
> > Not wishing to muddy the waters, but I've found that the iwlwifi
> > driver with a 3945 card is only reliable for scanning and associating
> > for 
> > my laptop (x86_64) with disable_hw_scan=1 set, this is with
> > 2.4.24.4-64.fc8 kernel. Driver version is 1.2.26.
> 
> I agree that your problem is related (no scanning results from driver),
> but it does seem to be different from what we are trying to debug here.
> In this case the user is not receiving scanning results when using sw
> scanning while the driver should have been using hw scanning because the
> user is not using that driver parameter as you are.

Yes, I just thought it might be useful to know that some people are
seeing the exact reverse.

It's actually working well for me now, so I'm in no hurry to break it :)

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Brian Morrison

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