Subject: Re: Problem with IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:27:18 +0100
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Hi Kalle,

> > so I have built the latest wireless-testing tree with a new patches sent
> > by Reinette fixing the DMA issue. So far I have no problems and I am
> > unable to re-produce it. However this is a different AP and I disabled
> > the power control feature for now.
> >
> > I also updated wpa_supplicant and iw to the latest code and assume that
> > no fix in there silently fixed it for me.
> >
> > So we are suspecting that this issue was because of me having 3GB of RAM
> > and running on a 64-bit kernel. Does this makes sense and could be the
> > problem why it kept failing until I unload the iwlagn driver?
> 
> I would say that don't make any assumptions until you manage to test
> with the original AP. APs can be broken so many ways.

I would agree with that in general, but I haven been using that AP for
over a year now successfully with the 4965 card in my X61. No problems
ever.

Regards

Marcel