From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: rtl8187 behavior change/breakage with 3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64<->3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:39:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120130183924.GA2493@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327924292.6683.YahooMailClassic@web29506.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:51:32AM +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> --- On Sun, 29/1/12, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>
> > > This may be a fedora-specific problem - I noticed that
> > just after booting into the new fedora kernel
> > (3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64), I am getting a strange message from
> > the kernel:
> > >
> > > rtl8187: Invalid hwaddr! Using randomly generated MAC
> > address
>
>
> > I just checked, and rtl8187 works fine with my RTL8187L
> > using 3.3-rc1 from
> > wireless-testing. I don't know where the problem occurs.
>
> Thanks for looking. It is mostly likely a fedora-specific problem then. Unless John has any idea, I'll eventually unpacking the fedora kernel source if the problem persists for another kernel.
>
> Cheers,
> Hin-Tak
>
> P.S. Herton's e-mail seems to have changed.
When I integrated compat-wireless into the Fedora kernels, I
left it using the in-kernel eeprom_93cx6 driver. Apparently some
incompatiblity has krept-in, and several wireless drives stopped
working. I have changed the fedora kernels to use the version of
eeprom_93cx6 now, so the next build should work alright.
Sorry!
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 20:40 rtl8187 behavior change/breakage with 3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64<->3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64 Hin-Tak Leung
2012-01-29 21:41 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-30 11:51 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2012-01-30 18:39 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2012-01-30 23:40 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-31 10:45 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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