[ltp] airo_mpi vs. airo

Greg Meyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:46:07 -0500


On Friday 05 March 2004 06:27 am, Andreas Kemnade wrote:

> >
> > Yep, that's right. airo_mpi is now deprecated, since the support for
> > MPI350 is included in airo.c in the 2.6 kernel. Backport for 2.4 should
> > follow soon. An patch for 2.4.25 is here :
>
> I'm using airo_mpi again. I have often the problem that I cannot send but
> receive with airo.c in 2.6.3. I have not found the time yet to debug it.
> The problem appears mainly in regions with multiple accesspoints which
> do not broadcast the ssid. iwconfig shows an access point
> In that situations reloading airo.ko does not help. The syslog says
> nothing interesting (no tx timeouts). Insmod'ing airo_mpi fixes
> the problem at once.
>
I am also having some trouble with airo locking up when getting an ip address.  
It doesn't happen all the time, but I may go back to airo_mpi also.
-- 
Greg