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jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
>
>>
>> On an Acer 9410 laptop with dual core processors, the iwl3945 driver has
>> intermittment receiver lockup problems (stops receiving packets) using
>> the
>> Linux iwl3945 drivers with WEP encryption enbaled. The adapter works
>> fine
>> without WEP or WPA. If the same system is booted to Windows Vista
>> (which
>> takes about 15 minutes to boot because Vista is a fat slow pig) the
>> wireless drivers work fine with WEP under Vista on the same system.
>>
>> If the system copies the ndis .sys drivers and I build ndiswrapper
>> (which
>> has to be really hacked up to build on 2.6.27) and use the ndis drivers
>> on
>> 2.6.27-rc3 with a modified ndiswrapper, they work fine.
>>
>> I suspect the firmware or an interaction with the firmware settings
>> since
>> when the system is booted to Vista after running 2.6.27-rc3 with the
>> iwl3945 drivers, I have to power cycle the system periodically after
>> running the iwl3945 driver to get the drivers under Vista to work again,
>> but not always.
>>
>
> (cc linux-wireless)
>
> Was 2.6.26 OK?
>
