ipw3945/iwlwifi/iwl3945 users, please test latest davej kernels

Roy-Magne Mo rmo at sunnmore.net
Tue May 8 13:19:53 UTC 2007


John W. Linville skreiv:
> If you are a rawhide user/tester and have ipw3945 hardware, please
> try the latest kernels here:
> 
> 	http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/
> 
> I am having mixed results with the latest iwl3945 updates, but I'm
> not sure if it is this particular laptop having problems or the driver
> in general.
> 
> Please give the latest kernels a try and let me know how it is working
> for you.  Please also let me know what was the last kernel that worked
> any better for ipw3945 hardware than the current ones.
> 
> At this point, I am quite uneasy about this driver.  It seems to work
> fine at times, then crash or simply refuse to associate at others.
> I am considering backing it out to the 0.0.16 tag or possibly even
> removing it (since the driver has _still_ not been posted upstream).
> Thoughts?

I am experiencing kernel oops when trying to unload the driver with 
kernel-2.6.21-1.3141.fc7.

I will try kernel-2.6.21-1.3142.fc7 later today and see if this is still 
a problem.




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