From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
andrea_monta@inwind.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOPS bug KERNEL LINUX- Version 2.6.26
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:27:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080922222716.GI3660@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809230025.03680.IvDoorn@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:25:03AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > 1. Problem with usb-wireless-key
> > > 2. I can't find my device typing ifconfig -a or iwconfig I don't find any wireless attached device. But I have my usb wireless connected. A belkin usb wireless key.Before, with the kernel 2.6.25 all worked well
> > > 3. nothing
> > > 4. Linux version 2.6.26 (root@clementino) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 PREEMPT Mon Sep 22 15:57:45 CEST 2008
> > > 5.
>
> You missed the message from rt2x00 2 lines above this trace, which undoubtly have said something like:
> "Invalid RT chipset detected."
> which is triggered when rt73usb is loaded for a device it does not support
>
> The current workaround for this issue is blacklisting rt73usb and making sure the driver
> which is required for your driver is loaded instead.
>
> I'll look into the reason why this actually triggers a NULL pointer, since that is obviously a nasty bug.
-stable needs a patch similar to the one here:
http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/patches/jwltest-rt2x00lib-probe-fail.patch
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-22 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 21:50 OOPS bug KERNEL LINUX- Version 2.6.26 andrea_monta
2008-09-22 22:16 ` David Miller
2008-09-22 22:25 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-09-22 22:27 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-09-22 22:32 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-09-22 23:47 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-23 7:04 ` Ivo van Doorn
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