[shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 12 14:55:14 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Paul Fertser wrote:
> "Adolph J. Vogel" <ajvogel at tuks.co.za> writes:
> > Im sorry if this is an obvious question, but what kernel is wifi bug
> > free?
>
> There's no such kernel in existance.
>
> And wifi firmware is not bugfree and most probably will never
> be. Blame Canada^W Atheros. Or buy a decent usb wifi dongle. :(

Given that 2.6.28/9 has had at least one kernel bug with wifi support on the 
FR it isn't unreasonable to ask whether the currently distributed kernels have 
all the known bug fixes applied. It wouldn't be the first time that known bug 
fixes haven't been applied in the shipping kernel.




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