Re: IPW2200 breaks post 2.6.18

>>>>> "Yan" == Yannick Warnier <[email protected]> writes:

 Yan> Le jeudi 12 octobre 2006 à 16:52 +0200, Pierre Ossman a écrit :
 >> Hi there,
 >> 
 >> It seems that some time during the post-2.6.18 merge window,
 >> something got in that broke my ipw2200. I haven't done any deep
 >> debugging or bisecting yet, but what seems to happen is that it
 >> can associate (I see a MAC in the AP field), but no data flows
 >> (tcpdump is silent).

 Yan> Hi there,

 Yan> I don't know what a Linus' tip commit ID is, and don't really
 Yan> want to, but just in case that helps, I've had problems with my
 Yan> ipw2200 after an upgrade from 2.6.16 to 2.6.17 on a Debian Etch
 Yan> install. Now I'm running in 2.6.16 again and the card works
 Yan> again.

 Yan> While under 2.6.17, I've tried running module-assistant to
 Yan> reinstall the module, but I had a dependency problem where the
 Yan> ipw2200-source package depends on debhelper which, apparently,
 Yan> has been removed. Trying to reinstall debhelper then is not an
 Yan> option because it must remove a lot of packages like python and
 Yan> openoffice.org.

 Yan> I don't know if that helps. I can probably give you more info if
 Yan> you tell me what you need and you're not in too much of a hurry
 Yan> (need to reboot to get under 2.6.17 and then reboot to send
 Yan> e-mail).

 Yan> Yannick

This probably has to do more with the debian distribution than ipw2200
module. I use debian also but I use custom kernel and have no problem
with ipw2200 module (standalone or in the kernel) with 2.6.18, or
2.6.17. 

Good luck.

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