[Bug 282840] Re: [regression] WPA not available on ThinkPad T30 (hostap broken)

madbiologist s.j.turner at uq.net.au
Tue Jan 26 14:39:09 UTC 2010


Since this is a kernel bug, and Linus Torvalds is still the person
ultimately responsible for the kernel, perhaps you could tell him that
you think he has achieved nothing.  He can be contacted via the mailing
list at http://lkml.org/  I doubt he will agree with you.

> Nobody cares, right?
> 
> This is already the second formerly perfectly working wireless driver I know, which has been "destroyed" by an upgrade.
> Linux is getting exactly the quality that MS DOS had, when Linus was so fed up with MS DOS to write his own OS.
> Also: modprobe hostap_pci immediately leads to a soft lockup of the kernel. So it is clear where the kernel hangs. That does not > sound like a terribly difficult bug to track.

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[regression] WPA not available on ThinkPad T30 (hostap broken)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282840
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