orinoco.c patch for Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 (and D-Link DWL-650H)

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:32:50PM +0200, Jan Rychter wrote:
> >>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>:
>  Pavel> Hi, Jeffrey!
>  >> Here is a patch for anyone trying to use Intel PRO/Wireless 2011
>  >> pcmcia card with the orinoco drivers, who are experiencing kernel
>  >> panics or freezes.  This used to be in the driver base, but
>  >> disappeared around 0.08.  Run with `patch -p0 <
>  >> orinoco.c.intel_patch`
> 
>  Pavel> The problem with hermes_reset() is not unique to Intel
>  Pavel> PRO/Wireless 2011 - it was observed on other cards with Symbol
>  Pavel> firmware.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I just wanted to report that this patch has made my D-Link DWL-650H [1]
> usable. Before that I'd get:

Yes, it will help with problems on any Symbol firmware card.  We've
just implemented a new locking scheme that should let us fix this
problem for good.  0.12 has it there, but there are still some fixes
that need to be made before it will work properly.

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