Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:48223 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752518AbYFMUEK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:04:10 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so3402254waf.23 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240806131304n442972eatfd2f35034476c380@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080613_220416_488619_EFD04104) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:04:09 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Maxim Levitsky" Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] [BUG] iwlwifi 3945 works only with disable_hw_scan=1 Cc: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tor_H=E5kon_Haugen?=" , "Zhu Yi" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <48528CF0.8050204@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <484FEA26.1040305@gmail.com> <1213241315.7814.696.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <20080612135936.GA5031@tuxdriver.com> <1213342523.7814.865.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <20080613130310.GA5333@tuxdriver.com> <48528B63.5030403@gmail.com> <48528CF0.8050204@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > Tor H=E5kon Haugen wrote: >> >> 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 h= aven't >>>> seen what the bug is myself). But you are free to change the defau= lt >>>> value until it is fixed. There is no such problem for 4965, right? >>> AFAICT only the 3945 seems to need it. >>> >> >> I can confirm that this also applies to 4965 as a friend of mine has >> this card. According to him the card works a lot better with the >> 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= =2E > It looks like this is all caused by the big rate, band patch. Looks like A band scan channels are not configured correctly for the scanning. This crashes the firmware. Tomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html