From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1hYG-00056D-C2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:20:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34EF0E0268; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C84BE0268 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so964770yxp.46 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:20:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=OiZMDtesP+ckZaaRbuaWi+bJ8ESvQBy3y+tsht0m9S8=; b=CtCqsuKkhlnt9wJWcF5lq69AINDO5U3KiXOktEh1VwBeHmspMCegBWpXMgnQ02x1WU Hb1D2PvA1wuAFQDFrGzRrooyWwhIKgmdoDrrau4L3SfNcpXMoLLO1zFgmhrjfZbn/5dT JlmbvEjMyc8DjixIQC+j3DGtVGLAXrQgQb2MQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=PVERCOzjysVcV7uu5dApnvT8fvJIV1U9yDs9YURw2UKCmAOt7S+ptrMfESEOekeVPp 2SyeY5bnGVQi51BBFxxxheRzv8C78g22OB7EHa+6PdrmDxZutcZtQ9FC1JIX7Bdeoem8 60BypHdhXiVUtBR1mo9OqGo6sIPopvZDrGiDk= Received: by 10.65.23.5 with SMTP id a5mr2792051qbj.30.1226841629809; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.4? (dsl-243-253-47.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.253.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s12sm4690426qbs.9.2008.11.16.05.20.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:20:28 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.26 and iwl3945 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:20:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <491DEE0F.1090805@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <491FFDDE.5080700@f_philipp.fastmail.net> In-Reply-To: <491FFDDE.5080700@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811161520.24242.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 32544386-9db1-4257-9c03-8a6c37b649a7 X-Archives-Hash: ef030b32f9fde34da3bbedd3b3db2c8f On Sunday 16 November 2008 13:02:54 Florian Philipp wrote: > Can anyone say: "Yeah, I use the iwl3945 driver with 2.6.26 and it works > flawlessly for me." If so, could you please post your exact kernel > version (for example gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2) and your kernel config? No-one can say that, the driver is buggy. Something to do with waking the card up or bringing it out of deep sleep. Personally, I think it's along the lines of a race condition in how the card is reliably powered up (but that's just be thinking of what's most likely). Intel has a bugzilla, which shows that virtually every distro on all platforms using the 3945 have the identical problem in every kernel version that contains this code: http://intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=1651 We have two options: - get involved, fix it ourselves, submit patch to upstream (intel) - wait for intel to come up with reliable code All the evidence points to intel taking this seriously, it's a popular card and intel wants their stuff to work nicely on linux. So chances are it's a deeper problem that it appears on the surface -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com