From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
herton@mandriva.com.br
Subject: Re: rtl8187 behavior change/breakage with 3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64<->3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:41:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F25BD09.3060607@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327869629.89221.YahooMailClassic@web29503.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
On 01/29/2012 02:40 PM, Hin-Tak Leung 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
>
> And it is setting my rtl8187 to an alien mac address instead of the usual one I have. The previous (3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64) works correctly, and as far as I go back through my /var/log/message, had never had this problem ever.
>
> The relevant changelog in the fedora package is this, so this might be a compat-wireless 3.3-rc1-2 problem? I checked rhbz 784345 which looked unrelated, although it is realtek (another driver).
>
> --------------
>
> * Wed Jan 25 2012 Josh Boyer<jwboyer@redhat.com> - 3.2.2-1
> - Linux 3.2.2
> - Add patch to invalidate parent cache when fsync is called on a partition
> (rhbz 783211)
> - Test fix for realtek_async_autopm oops from Stanislaw Gruszka (rhbz 784345)
The wireless device in 784345 uses iwlwifi. The Realtek device is a wired interface.
> * Wed Jan 25 2012 John W. Linville<linville@redhat.com>
> - modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint
> - Make integrated compat-wireless take advantage of the above
>
> * Wed Jan 25 2012 Josh Boyer<jwboyer@redhat.com>
> - Backport patch to fix oops in rds (rhbz 718790)
>
> * Tue Jan 24 2012 John W. Linville<linville@redhat.com>
> - Update compat-wireless snapshot to version 3.3-rc1-2
>
> * Tue Jan 24 2012 Josh Boyer<jwboyer@redhat.com>
> - Re-enable the ARCMSR module (rhbz 784287)
> - Add back a set of patches that were erroneously dropped during the rebase
> - Re-enable the LIRC_STAGING drivers (rhbz 784398)
> --------------------------------
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.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-29 21:41 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 [this message]
2012-01-30 11:51 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2012-01-30 18:39 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-30 23:40 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-31 10:45 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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