From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758119AbYFHBCW (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:02:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755317AbYFHBCN (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:02:13 -0400 Received: from hope.ime.usp.br ([143.107.45.8]:52376 "HELO hope.ime.usp.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755300AbYFHBCM (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:02:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:02:07 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito To: "John W. Linville" , Ivo van Doorn Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.26-rc4] Problems with rt2x00 USB interface on powerpc Message-ID: <20080608010207.GA11086@ime.usp.br> References: <20080601193000.GA3056@ime.usp.br> <20080606162324.GB635@tuxdriver.com> <20080607005227.GA1739@ime.usp.br> <20080607143051.GA3096@tuxdriver.com> <20080608001143.GB10775@ime.usp.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080608001143.GB10775@ime.usp.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi again, John. I'm including Ivo van Doorn in this e-mail. I hope that the problem gets solved soon. On Jun 07 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, again, John. > > On Jun 07 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 09:52:27PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > > 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 . > > > > 404 > > I think that you should have received a later reply telling about the typo > in the address above. It should have been: > . This time I hope that I have not done anything incorrectly. > > > >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. > > > > Did you apply this patch? > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384 > > No, I did not. Is it still relevant with -rc4 or with -rc5? I still get the > same problem with -rc5 (but I will have to test it a bit more with -rc5). Unfortunately, this patch won't even apply with 2.6.26-rc5 as the code seems to have changed a lot between that date and today. For instance, there doesn't seem to exist a function called "rt2500usb_config_mac_addr" in the rt2x00 directory (just did a grep on my unconnected iBook). I hope that this helps Ivo to understand what the issue is: > Just as a refresher: > > * I can set everything on the iBook with the wireless key plugged; > * The wireless key *sees* the AP, even with encryption (that is, it grabs > the MAC address of the AP, it (sometimes) shows me the signal strength, > and if I issue "iwconfig wlan0 ap any", I see both the led of the > wireless key blink and an increase of amount of data transmitted and > received with "ifconfig wlan0"); > * With everything set this way, if I do "dhclient wlan0", it doesn't get a > lease from the AP---actually, despite the fact that it is possible to see > the other point, dhclient goes, after some attempts of getting a lease, > to background, but no address is ever gotten; > * Just to rule out possible problems with something sent to the address > 255.255.255.255 (which is reported as being done by dhclient), I tried to > configure the address by hand via ifconfig, but, for instance, I couldn't > ping my AP (which I can from other computers with a rt61pci driver and a > PCMCIA connection); > * As I mentioned above, I have no problems with the rt61pci driver, but the > USB one doesn't seem to work (unfortunately, the iBook does not have a > PCMCIA slot). With a notebook with an on-board Intel wireless card, I > *also* don't have any problems. > > Well, thanks, for the help so far. I hope that we can solve this issue > quite soon, as I need this iBook for work. > > I am willing to help as much as I can and test anything (even something > that might be "experimental"). I think that this is as good a tester that > you can get, right? :-) Again, I am willing to test any "intrusive" change as I still don't have valuable data on that machine. BTW, I have firmware from Debian's ralink-firmware package (which should be what ralink has released) installed on this machine. I don't know if the firmware is needed in my case or not, though (my USB adaptor is a D-Link DWL-G122 H/W Ver. B1, F/W Ver.: 2.03---took that info from the back of the stick). Oh, I should mention that MacOS X is able to use the card without any problems on this machine and with encryption. (I may have forgotten to say that before). And, just to rule out things, I can test this USB adaptor on a ia32 notebook running Ubuntu's Hardy Heron, but I don't know how much patched their kernel is. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org