HostAP Stability (fixed??)

[Eduardo Kaftanski]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 06:24:43PM +0100, Mike Saywell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I may have had a mini break-through in figuring out why hostap was
> unstable under high network load...
> 
> Bascially I was recompiling the kernel on one of my APs and noticed I
> had SMP enabled, so I disabled it (it's a single processor machine),
> and since doing this hostap hasn't locked up once!
> 
> I've repeated this on another box which also had an SMP enabled kernel
> and used to hang under load.
> 
> I'm a bit confused about the problems reported with soekris boards though,
> I wouldn't have thought people would be running an SMP kernel on them...
> 
> Well if there's anybody out there who's having problems and running an
> SMP kernel it might be worth trying this. :)

Yes... I have reported 3 times already that 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 loose the card
under load on an SMP kernel. 0.0.1 locked hard trying to restore the card.
0.0.2 just keeps sending reset messages...

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