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From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Hi John,

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:52 -0700, John Ranson wrote:
> Reinette,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM, reinette
> chatre<reinette.chatre@intel.com> wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 11:43 -0700, John Ranson wrote:
> >> I am also seeing frequent loss of association and firmware restarts
> >> with the new firmware.  On occasion, I can't recover even when I
> >> reload the driver. Admittedly, I am using an old driver right now
> >> (2.6.29, I think).
> >
> > The better restart work was added in 2.6.31 I think, so it is only in
> > the recent driver that you will have a smooth recovery after a failure.
> > You may thus be seeing the same problem as Helmut, with him running the
> > recent restart code.
> 
> Can I also get this with the latest compat wireless release and
> 2.6.30.1? I don't usually switch to a new kernel until it's been
> stable for a while.

yes - compat wireless contains all the latest code, which includes this
restart work.

> 
> >
> >>
> >> I'm going to upgrade to 2.6.30.1 with the latest compat-wireless. I'll
> >> file a bug if things continue as they are.
> >
> > Even if the restart code gets you up and running smoothly after a
> > failure, please do submit a bug report so that we can look into this.
> 
> I'll be sure to file a bug.

Thank you very much

Reinette