RT2860 driver

RT2860 driver

[JD]

I have built and booted several kernel.org releases of
kernel 2.6, ever since rt2860 was added to the staging area.
I have an rt2860 mini-pci wifi card.
To make a long story short, the last kernel release I built
with rt2860 config enabled (module), that actually worked
(i.e. rt2860 driver worked) was (I think) kernel 2.6.28.

I have not been able to get it working in 2.6.[29,30,31,32]

So, what I have been doing is to copy full rt2860 directory
(which I had extracted and saved from the last working version)
into the latest kernel, and I make sure that

rt2860/config.mk has

HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y

HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

This is the only way I can get my wireless working.

So, if anyone on this list has it working in latest kernel,
without resorting to what I am doing, please share you "how-to".

If this is the wrong list to ask about this, then please tell,
which list discusses driver problems?

Cheers,

JD

Re: RT2860 driver

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 07:48:33PM -0800, JD wrote:
> I have built and booted several kernel.org releases of
> kernel 2.6, ever since rt2860 was added to the staging area.
> I have an rt2860 mini-pci wifi card.
> To make a long story short, the last kernel release I built
> with rt2860 config enabled (module), that actually worked
> (i.e. rt2860 driver worked) was (I think) kernel 2.6.28.
>
> I have not been able to get it working in 2.6.[29,30,31,32]
>
> So, what I have been doing is to copy full rt2860 directory
> (which I had extracted and saved from the last working version)
> into the latest kernel, and I make sure that
>
> rt2860/config.mk has
>
> HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
>
> HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y
>
> This is the only way I can get my wireless working.
>
> So, if anyone on this list has it working in latest kernel,
> without resorting to what I am doing, please share you "how-to".

Can you try using 'git bisect' to determine the exact change that caused
your device to stop working?

thanks,

greg k-h