Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17

David Gibson (hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au)
Thu, 23 May 2002 11:27:40 +1000

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:17:51AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 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.

Yes. Unfortunately a bunch of the bug fixes we made between 0.06f and
0.09b uncovered other, even worse, bugs - at least on some
hardware/firmware.

It also would have helped if I'd been pushing to the kernel more
frequently, but I got slack.

> 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).

Yes checking 0.11b, which is in Marcelo's latest -pres (and in
2.5.17), would be very helpful

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