Bug 376511 - ipw2200 regression in 2.6.23.1-49
Summary: ipw2200 regression in 2.6.23.1-49
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 8
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-11 21:00 UTC by Ronald Kuetemeier
Modified: 2008-01-25 16:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-01-23 16:17:14 UTC
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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.



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