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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:06:24 +0300
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
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CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] [BUG] iwlwifi 3945 works only with	disable_hw_scan=1
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Tor H=E5kon Haugen wrote:
>=20
> John W. Linville wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:35:23PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 09:59 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>>>> Honestly I'm tempted to change it to "enable_hw_scan" instead...
>>> Give the advantages, I'd like to use it if we can fix the bug (I ha=
ven't
>>> seen what the bug is myself). But you are free to change the defaul=
t
>>> value until it is fixed. There is no such problem for 4965, right?
>> AFAICT only the 3945 seems to need it.
>>
>=20
> I can confirm that this also applies to 4965 as a friend of mine has=20
> this card. According to him the card works a lot better with the=20
> parameters "swcrypto=3D1" and "disable_hw_scan=3D1".

Just to make it clear,
iwl3945 doesn't work at all without disable_hw_scan=3D1 here.
The driver just shuts down thee card since it detects microcode error.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky
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