Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17

Jean Tourrilhes (jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 22 May 2002 11:17:51 -0700


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:24:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Alan,
> > Could you be more precise and point out which kernel start
> > failing ?
>
> Certainly in 2.4.18 (and I've seen a pile of other similar reports).

2.4.18 did upgrade the driver from 0.06f to 0.09b. The bug
with 0.09b is a race condition in Tx code. This was fixed in version
0.11.
Have you tried 2.4.19-pre8-acX (well, I mean the Orinoco
driver in 2.4.19-pre8 ;-). It contains the new version of the driver
(v11) that fixes the race condition (but introduce the potential COR
problem).
If 2.4.19-pre8-acX fails, that would be for an entirely
different reason (even if the failure might look similar).

> Any specific info/debug/traces that would help ?

I'll defer that to David.

> Alan

Good luck...

Jean
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