From: Jouni Malinen (jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2002-06-12 14:23:18 UTC
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:53:27PM +0200, Martin Whitlock wrote:
> I suddenly noticed that my linux clients with orinoco gold cards got kernel
> panic when connented to a hostap v2002-05-19. Since I knew that I've used
> orinoco cards as clients before I started backtrace to find the time when
> the problem occured, and I had to succesively downgrade to hostap
> v2002-04-21 to get rid of it.
That sounds quite odd.. Did I understand it correctly: with AP running hostap 2002-04-21, station using Orinoco card (wvlan_cs/orinoco_cs driver) works fine, but 2002-04-24 or anything newer on the AP causes the station to panic? Can you repeat this?
> I have tried all kinds of platforms, and it seems like windows based are
> working fine, but linux systems that run either wvlan_cs or orinoco_cs get
> kernel panic. (I've tried both kernel 2.4.13 and 2.4.18 in both StrongARM
> and 386 environment.) It seems strange that hostap can cause a kernel panic
> on the client side; it must be a bug in wvlan_cs and orinoco_cs trigged by
> later versions of hostap, or?
Indeed it sounds strange. I have had no problems with using orinoco_cs as the client with hostap driver being the AP, but I would have to admit that I'm still using an ancient version of orinoco_cs (0.08a from Oct 2001). Which version of the orinoco_cs are you using? wvlan_cs/orinoco_cs do not handle management frames on the host driver, so this would need to be something else. I would also be suprised if encapsulation/decapsulation of data frames had such a bug.
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