Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:47876 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755725AbZGMTww convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:52:52 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so2414209fxm.37 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:52:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1247511400.17896.1625.camel@rc-desk> References: <1247174482.17896.1304.camel@rc-desk> <200907121445.42289.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> <1247499979.17896.1556.camel@rc-desk> <1247511400.17896.1625.camel@rc-desk> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:52:51 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwlwifi 4965 uCode available From: John Ranson To: reinette chatre Cc: Helmut Schaa , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Reinette, On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM, reinette chatre 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. > >> >> 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. John