From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Hartkopp Subject: Re: b43 is broken in latest net-2.6 and linux-2.6 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:13:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC1B3A3.4050205@hartkopp.net> References: <4AB4BF1F.7070501@hartkopp.net> <20090928184211.GC4737@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Buesch , Linux Netdev List To: "John W. Linville" Return-path: Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.162]:32789 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753280AbZI2HNn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:13:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090928184211.GC4737@tuxdriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:23:11PM +0200, Oliver Hartkopp wrote: >> Hello Michael, >> >> my b43 wireless card (Dell 830) is not working with the latest net-2.6 (and >> also linux-2.6 2.6.31-05767-gdf58bee). >> >> net-2.6 2.6.31-03263-gc29854e is working >> net-2.6 2.6.31-03301-ga97e178 is broken >> >> I removed the patch with the work_queue stuff which did not help - so it's >> probably the other patch you added to b43 recently. >> >> Don't know ... the wlan0 link does not become ready anymore. >> >> If you need some more information - please let me know. > > Is this working better now, with 2.6.31-rc1? Thanks for coming back on this. Yes it is fixed now. 'cfg80211: fix SME connect' broke it and 'cfg80211: don't overwrite privacy setting' fixed it afterwards (at least in my setup). So it's pretty well working now. Best regards, Oliver