Bug 376511

Summary:	ipw2200 regression in 2.6.23.1-49
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ronald Kuetemeier <bugzilla>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	cebbert, davej, sergio
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Description Ronald Kuetemeier 2007-11-11 21:00:23 UTC

Description of problem:
Wireless hangs with hwcrypto=1 turned on. Worked in 
2.6.23.1-42.  Turned it off and it works ok. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.23.1-49.fc8 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2008-01-22 20:10:22 UTC

Is this still a probelm with current F8 kernels?

Comment 2 Sergio Basto 2008-01-23 15:34:39 UTC

After upgrade from f7 I had to 
edit /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant and 
comment DRIVERS="-Dwext"

Comment 3 Sergio Basto 2008-01-23 16:42:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> After upgrade from f7 I had to 
> edit /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant and 
> comment DRIVERS="-Dwext"

hey! I am not the reporter , just try to help !

Comment 4 John W. Linville 2008-01-23 18:47:47 UTC

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. :-)

I'm still going to leave it closed for now -- please reopen if the problem is 
still happending with current F8 kernels.

Comment 5 Ronald Kuetemeier 2008-01-23 21:52:16 UTC

Sorry for the late answer.
I just tested with:
vermagic:       2.6.23.9-85.fc8 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS 
unload module and reload with options ipw2200 led=1 hwcrypto=1 -> works
reboot just in case with the same parm -> works

In other words it works again.

Comment 6 Ronald Kuetemeier 2008-01-25 16:14:10 UTC

Ok some more feedback. 
While it seems to work in general, it's flaky. Meaning I was running a streaming
video and the led went on and off, and the stream began to break up at times.
First thought was I had something CPU intensive running in the back, so I
rebooted since I just upgraded the kernel via yum. Clean fresh machine same
video same problem.
So I unloaded the module and reloaded without hwcrypto=1 and the problem went away.
modinfo:
vermagic:       2.6.23.14-107.fc8 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS

Options with problem:
#options ipw2200 led=1 hwcrypto=1

Options without any problem:
options ipw2200 led=1

Workaround run without hwcrypto.