Lockups with Orinoco and 2.4.19

[Patrick Cole]

Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:41:43PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:


> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:21:34AM +0200, Thomas Bueschgens wrote:
> > 
> > Hi David, thanks for the fast reply. 
> > 
> >    On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:00:03 +1000, David Gibson
> >    <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> said:
> > 
> > David> Don't use version 0.12x of the orinoco driver.  They're all
> > David> broken due to a misguided design idea on my part.
> > 
> > So I take it that you recommend staying with the kernel-delivered
> > version of the orinoco-driver? 
> 
> For now, yes.  As soon as I get enough time, I'll try to release 0.13
> which will revert the bad locking changes, but include the good
> changes which are in 0.12.
> 
> > David> The other problems may be due to firmware 8.10.  They seem to
> > David> have made some gratuitous changes in this version, that we
> > David> haven't fully worked out how to deal with yet.
> > 
> > Do you think "downgrading" the firmware (if possible at all) would be
> > a sensible solution / approach to this problem? Right now it is kind
> > of sub-optimal to have no connectivity at all under linux.
> 
> I don't know if this problem is related to the firmware, but it might
> be.  If so downgrading should help.  I have reports of people
> sucessfully downgrading, but I haven't tried it myself:  all care, no
> responsibility.
 
I downgraded to 6.06 and interestingly enough the RF monitoring stuff is
working decently since.  It would however be nice to be able to use the 
latest firmware for the extra bits/fixes they've included.

Patrick

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