[PATCH 0/2] Fix iwl6000 does not work in 2.6.31 kernel

[Tim Gardner]

Ike Panhc wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496496
> 
> User reports that the Ubuntu Karmic (2.6.31-14-generic) recognize the the PCI
> id of iwl6000 series but can not scan for APs and not even to associate to AP.
> We need two commits cherry-picked from mainline kernel to fix this problem.
> 
> Since we have only version 4 firmware for iwl6000 in the linux-firmware package.
> We need to change the IWL6000_UCODE_API_MAX to v4 for driver to load version 4
> firmware.
> 
> After fixing the firmware loading issue, the dmesg reports randomly command
> timeout for RXON, Unifying RXON timing is necessary for iwl6000. One minor
> conflict solved due to we still need sw_crypto in iwl-dev.h
> 
> Patches against linux-2.6.31.8 and Ubuntu-2.6.31-17.54 are listed below.
> 
> Ike Panhc (1):
>   iwlwifi: unify iwl_setup_rxon_timing
> 
> Wey-Yi Guy (1):
>   iwlwifi: change IWL6000_UCODE_API_MAX to v4
> 
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c     |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c     |    4 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c      |   64 -----------------------
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-commands.h |   20 +++++++-
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c     |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h     |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h      |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |   74 +--------------------------
>  8 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)
> 
> 

NAK - the solution for iwlwifi 6K users is to install 
linux-backports-modules-karmic which is based on 2.6.32.

rtg

P.S. I think your email distribution is a bit wide. I'm pretty sure LKML 
and stable.org aren't really interested in changes that we're making to 
our kernel.

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com