Subject: Re: ath driver and wep
To: None <10.50@free.fr>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/02/2005 13:34:35
Vincent <10.50@free.fr> writes:

> Greg Troxel a =E9crit :
>=20
> > I find it unlikely that it would cause a crash, but of course
> > until we find the bug one can never tell.  Can you explain how you
> > are concluding that this change is to blame?
>=20
> Well, of course I'd have to test this further. But since this
> behaviour is new, and the only thing that has changed is the patch,
> it seems a logical course. Here is what happened: the link has
> dropped down. I did an "ifconfig ath0 down" then an "ifconfig ath0
> up", that never completed: the system crashed with the card half
> set-up.

Thanks for providing details; that indeed sounds like the patch is at
issue.  Can you expand on 'crash'?  Is this with or without WEP?  If
so, how many keys?  Any other encryption methods?


--=20
        Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>