at76_usb driver for WUSB11 v.26 wireless adapter doesn't work for kernels newer than 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

at76_usb driver for WUSB11 v.26 wireless adapter doesn't work for kernels newer than 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

[Fred Odendaal]

There is a bug report for this here: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438606

Essentially, this driver used to work, but no longer does. The driver 
doesn't seem to be able to communicate signal level and link quality.

If someone needs me to test a fix for this, or to try test loads I'm 
willing to help.

regards,
Fred Odendaal

Re: at76_usb driver for WUSB11 v.26 wireless adapter doesn't work for kernels newer than 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 21:03 -0400, Fred Odendaal wrote:
> There is a bug report for this here: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438606
> 
> Essentially, this driver used to work, but no longer does. The driver 
> doesn't seem to be able to communicate signal level and link quality.
> 
> If someone needs me to test a fix for this, or to try test loads I'm 
> willing to help.

It's a known problem.  There are some patches by Milan Plzik in
at76c503a-develop@lists.berlios.de that may help, but they need to be
reviewed and tested.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

Re: at76_usb driver for WUSB11 v.26 wireless adapter doesn't work for kernels newer than 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

[Fred Odendaal]

Thanks Pavel,

I installed Milan's patches (all 8 of them) and it's still broken. I 
realize that it's nice to have smaller patches for code reviews, but for 
testing it would be a lot easier to have one giant patch.

I'm fairly certain I did the compilation and installation correctly as I 
see 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.5-85.fc8/updates/drivers/net/wireless/at76_usb.ko 
with today's date.

Is there anyway to get the driver to log messages as it's running? I 
noticed that "printk" is used a lot. Where would those messages go?

regards,
Fred Odendaal



Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 21:03 -0400, Fred Odendaal wrote:
>   
>> There is a bug report for this here: 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438606
>>
>> Essentially, this driver used to work, but no longer does. The driver 
>> doesn't seem to be able to communicate signal level and link quality.
>>
>> If someone needs me to test a fix for this, or to try test loads I'm 
>> willing to help.
>>     
>
> It's a known problem.  There are some patches by Milan Plzik in
> at76c503a-develop@lists.berlios.de that may help, but they need to be
> reviewed and tested.
>
>   

Re: at76_usb driver for WUSB11 v.26 wireless adapter doesn't work for kernels newer than 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 23:31 -0400, Fred Odendaal wrote:

> I installed Milan's patches (all 8 of them) and it's still broken. I 
> realize that it's nice to have smaller patches for code reviews, but
> for testing it would be a lot easier to have one giant patch.

Actually, it would be great to have them in some git repository for wide
testing.  But I want to take a look at the patches first.

> Is there anyway to get the driver to log messages as it's running? I 
> noticed that "printk" is used a lot. Where would those messages go?

They go to the kernel log, which is shown by the dmesg command.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin