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From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: John Ranson <ranson@analager.net>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to load iwlagn module: Failed to register hw (error -17)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:02:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247673740.17896.1983.camel@rc-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bcd1ba70907142125y35c78cf5v251953eafede0e74@mail.gmail.com>

Hi John,

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 21:25 -0700, John Ranson wrote:
> [    4.252445] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13
> 802.11a channels
> [    4.252556] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X
> [    4.252945] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Failed to register hw (error -17)
> [    4.253255] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> [    4.253263] iwlagn: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -17

This is ieee80211_register_hw() returning error 17 (EEXIST). One spot I
saw where this can happen is if you are trying to register with the same
name (wlanX) already used by another netdevice. Does this sound possible
in your setup?

Johannes - do you perhaps have an idea when this can happen?

Reinette



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-15  4:25 Unable to load iwlagn module: Failed to register hw (error -17) John Ranson
2009-07-15 16:02 ` reinette chatre [this message]
2009-07-15 16:11   ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-15 16:16     ` reinette chatre
2009-07-15 16:21       ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-15 16:25     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-16  3:58       ` John Ranson
2009-07-16 16:13         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-26  2:41           ` John Ranson

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