Re: WEP and 802.11 drivers

From: Alexandre \ <Alex.Kovalenko_at_verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:07:12 -0500
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 18:41 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
> > I've been able to reproduce some of the problems people are having.  Until I 
> > can fix them please try building wlan and wlan_wep into your kernel so the 
> > cipher module isn't loaded on the fly.  I believe that should eliminate the 
> > double fault panic and various related traps.
> 
> I didn't even have a chance to report this, but I was getting this 
> problem with the ndis driver. Your fix worked, thanks for suggesting it.
> 
> Doug
> 
Since adding wlan_wep to the kernel config, I do not have traps and
double faults, but neither I have wireless connectivity -- card gets
configured and claims to associate, occasionally I even get as far as
obtaining address via DHCP, but that is all I can get. Intermittently I
get 'host is down' from ping. At that point, ifconfig would show
'status' as 'no carrier'.

I have observed this with both Prism2-based cards (using wi driver) and
Broadcom based with ndis wrapper. Presence or absence of WEP does not
seem to make a difference.

Since your E-mail sounded like work-in-progress, I was not sure whether
additional details are needed, however, if they are, please let me know
and I will be happy to furnish them.

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
Received on Thu Dec 16 2004 - 02:08:26 UTC

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