[Trac #258] No Functional Wireless Driver

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#258: No Functional Wireless Driver
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 Reporter:  mfoster  |        Owner:  marcelo
     Type:  defect   |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  blocker  |    Milestone:  BTest-1
Component:  kernel   |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:           |  
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Comment (by dwmw2):

 Sorry for incomplete report -- network problems ate Mark's browser and he
 didn't think this actually got filed.

 OK... updating the firmware seemed to fail for me earlier until I enabled
 debugging output in the driver. Then it worked. But I wasn't able to
 reproduce that on a second board -- on the second attempt, upgrading the
 firmware with the non-debug driver was successful.

 http://david.woodhou.se/wireless-update.txt shows that first attempt
 without debugging enabled, which failed. I hit SysRq-P to see what it was
 doing, and then the lockup warnings seemed to start when I hit ^C. It's
 interruptible but doesn't handle being interrupted.

 The successful update on the first board is shown at
 http://david.woodhou.se/libertas.cap -- complete with oops when I unload
 the module.

 I did manage to get it up and running on the network for a while. Each
 outgoing ping seemed to get five replies, and it stopped working after a
 while -- I had to unload and reload the driver to get it to connect again.
 More testing on that now...

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