Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:51:50 +0200
From: Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
To: Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, 588196@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups
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Hi,

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:41:09PM +0200, Michael B?sch wrote:

> The same applies to receiving. The RX queue is also dropped on switch
> from DMA to PIO.

Sure, but the packet is repeated every ten seconds. The problem is that
none of those packets is received, even long after the switch to PIO.

> >advertisement, sent to 33:33:00:00:00:01). I have no idea where the
> >packet is dropped; from my somewhat limited understanding of 802.11, I'd
> >expect the frames to be treated like broadcast frames by the AP, so it'd
> >be the receiver dropping them in the MAC filter.

> The actual switch from DMA to PIO mode completely reinitializes
> the hardware and drops all queues.

Would it be possible to reinitialize the multicast filter at this point?

   Simon