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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: REGRESSION for RT2561/RT61 in 2.6.33
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:11:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263222695.29743.1.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1001110947350.2873-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

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Alan,

> The card doesn't work.  Although the firmware load appears to
> succeed, "iwconfig wlan0" says no wireless extensions present.

You need to set CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT (it is default y).

> The only clue I can offer is that "rmmod rt61pci" hangs in 
> wiphy_unregister() during the wait_event() loop near the start,
> because 
> rdev->opencount is equal to -1.  This suggests a refcounting imbalance
> 
> of some sort.

Good point, that's a bug that will go away with CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT,
I'll send a fix.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-01-11 14:54   ` REGRESSION for RT2561/RT61 in 2.6.33 Alan Stern
2010-01-11 15:11     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-01-11 15:46       ` Alan Stern

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