Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Centrino with NdisUnchainBufferAtBack patch

[Pontus F. <pon...@ta...>]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:53, Stefan D=C3=B6singer wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to report that the NdisUnchainBufferAtBack patch from Henk Vergone=
t has=20
> changed the behavior of my centrino card significantly:

Good. I think I understand your crash the the random strange address
now. NdisUnchainBufferAtBack writes the buffer's address to a variable
pointed out by a parameter. This variable will typically contain junk
and once the windows-code starts accessing this random hell breaks
loose.

> *Unloading the driver does not segfault rmmod any more, but still crashes=
 with=20
> killing keventd. Will send a dmesg later.

So no crash when receiving data. Only on unload?

> *Receiving something does not crash any more, but still doesn't work. I s=
ee=20
> that my card sends something by looking at the remoute PC's tcpdump("who-=
has=20
> 192.168.50.2, tell 192.168.50.3"), but the replies("192.168.50.2 is at=20
> a-b-c-d-e-f") is not received. The ping does not report anything and tcpd=
ump=20
> shows no reply. My router knows me, but only if I've sent something, my c=
ard=20
> does not reply to it's address scan. There are no error messages in the=20
> dmesg.
> I had _exactly_ the same problem with Linuxant's driverloader after I upg=
raded=20
> to Suse Linux 9.0. Driverloader worked well with Suse 8.2.

OK good. If you try to ping your machine from the remote one does the RX
count increase on your wlan interface?

> Might this be a problem with my distro? I will investigate it tomorrow, I=
 have=20
> to study for my Spanisch exam now.

=C2=A1Buena suerte amigo!

Pontus