From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751623AbXDUSpS (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:45:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751674AbXDUSpS (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:45:18 -0400 Received: from adelie.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.139]:55437 "EHLO adelie.ubuntu.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751623AbXDUSpR (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:45:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.20+ and rt2500/rt2570 problem From: Ben Collins To: Wiktor Wandachowicz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <254054bc0704210718t20ec96et3b7ab82ef783684f@mail.gmail.com> References: <254054bc0704210718t20ec96et3b7ab82ef783684f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:45:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1177181113.6369.2.camel@cunning> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 16:18 +0200, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: > Recently I tried newer releases of Linux distributions, specifically > Sabayon Linux 3.3 and Ubuntu 7.04. Both suffer from problems with > rt2500/rt2570 modules not being able to associate with access points. > There are numerous problems reported Ubuntu Launchpad, Gentoo Forums > and Sabayon Forums. > > Please, Linux kernel developers, try to help out the guys at: > http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ > > They look pretty clueless and don't know exactly what to do. > It seems that advances in kernel to Wireless Extensions 19 broke > their efforts somewhat. > > If possible, speed up the inclusion process of the driver into mainline > kernel, so users won't have to be forced to do a hardware upgrade. > Additionally, this problem prevents my machines from being upgraded from > Ubuntu 6.10 (kernel 2.6.17) to Ubuntu 7.04 (kernel 2.6.20 I believe). There are two modules in Ubuntu for this chipset, the rt2500 (default) and rt2500{pci,usb}. You could try blacklisting rt2500 and use rt2500pci. See if that helps. -- Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux1394: http://www.linux1394.org/