Re: iwlwifi working anytime soon?

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 21:33 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 16:20 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:58 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > > Would anyone in the know care to speculate if iwlwifi is going to work
> > > anytime soon? It's been in the kernel for a month or so (at least it
> > > feels like a month) and has never worked for me and many others. From
> > > the kernel changelogs, it doesn't seem like much is happening with it. 
> > 
> > Can people that have been having problems with iwlwifi try with today's
> > rawhide kernel (2.6.20-1.3056.fc7)?  I've had it work for me now on 4
> > laptops connecting to both an unencrypted and an encrypted (WEP) access
> > point where previously that was nowhere near the case ;)
> 
> Seemed to connect fine okay first time - but then I could not ping the
> router. I re-connected using n-m and now everything seem to be working.
> 
> I do get about a billion:
> 
> iwlwifi: TODO: Look into long/short preamble change handling.
> iwlwifi: TODO: Look into long/short preamble change handling.
> iwlwifi: TODO: Look into long/short preamble change handling.
> iwlwifi: TODO: Look into long/short preamble change handling.
> iwlwifi: TODO: Look into long/short preamble change handling.
> iwlwifi: TODO: Look into long/short preamble change handling.
> 
> in the logs - maybe one to suppress (or at leas rate-limit) in future
> versions of the patch.

John was building a kernel to change the level of the messages to be at
a lower level so they don't spam things by default

Jeremy