From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760648AbYFGBJj (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 21:09:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758689AbYFGBGg (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 21:06:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.flash.net.br ([201.46.240.48]:50658 "EHLO madrid.flash.tv.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758633AbYFGBGf (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 21:06:35 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 668 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:06:34 EDT Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 21:52:27 -0300 From: Rog?rio Brito To: "John W. Linville" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.26-rc4] Problems with rt2x00 USB interface on powerpc Message-ID: <20080607005227.GA1739@ime.usp.br> References: <20080601193000.GA3056@ime.usp.br> <20080606162324.GB635@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080606162324.GB635@tuxdriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org First of all, thanks John for taking the time to reply to my message. On Jun 06 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 04:30:01PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I have an iBook G3 600MHz combo (late 2001 model, powerpc) with a USB > > wireless card rt2x00 that doesn't work. > > > > I just compiled a fresh 2.6.26-rc4 kernel and it can't get a lease from > > the access point, even though it is able to see the access point. > > > > The userland here is Debian unstable (sid) and I can perform some of the > > steps in the direction of configuring the interface. For instance, the > > following works (I am using wep as the encryption system with other systems > > running under Linux, but, unfortunately, EVEN disabling encryption for the > > sake of the tests doesn't help here): (...) > > (Here, it is unable to grab an IP addess from the access point) > > You should set the key _before_ setting the essid. Thanks, but that unfortunately doesn't seem to help. :-( I have taken dmesg "snapshots" of my system together with many other information regarding how it is configured and I put it at my homepage, at . >>From what I am seeing, it looks like the bug mentioned in , but I don't get the stack trace that is present there and I'm just trying to use WEP instead of WPA or anything fancier. Thanks for all the help and please let me know if further information can be helpful for debugging this situation. Thanks again, Rogerio Brito