Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:51618 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161AbZGMS4l (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:56:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwlwifi 4965 uCode available From: reinette chatre To: John Ranson Cc: Helmut Schaa , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" In-Reply-To: References: <1247174482.17896.1304.camel@rc-desk> <200907121445.42289.helmut.schaa@gmail.com> <1247499979.17896.1556.camel@rc-desk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:56:40 -0700 Message-Id: <1247511400.17896.1625.camel@rc-desk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > > 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. > Thank you very much for getting the new firmware out! Reinette