From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
andrea_monta@inwind.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOPS bug KERNEL LINUX- Version 2.6.26
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:32:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809230032.37255.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080922222716.GI3660@tuxdriver.com>
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:25:03AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > > 1. Problem with usb-wireless-key
> > > > 2. I can't find my device typing ifconfig -a or iwconfig I don't find any wireless attached device. But I have my usb wireless connected. A belkin usb wireless key.Before, with the kernel 2.6.25 all worked well
> > > > 3. nothing
> > > > 4. Linux version 2.6.26 (root@clementino) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 PREEMPT Mon Sep 22 15:57:45 CEST 2008
> > > > 5.
> >
> > You missed the message from rt2x00 2 lines above this trace, which undoubtly have said something like:
> > "Invalid RT chipset detected."
> > which is triggered when rt73usb is loaded for a device it does not support
> >
> > The current workaround for this issue is blacklisting rt73usb and making sure the driver
> > which is required for your driver is loaded instead.
> >
> > I'll look into the reason why this actually triggers a NULL pointer, since that is obviously a nasty bug.
>
> -stable needs a patch similar to the one here:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel5/patches/jwltest-rt2x00lib-probe-fail.patch
Ah yes, that would be a good one.
I kind of assumed it was already merged, and hadn't actually verified that yet. ;)
Ivo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-22 22:32 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-22 22:16 ` OOPS bug KERNEL LINUX- Version 2.6.26 David Miller
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2008-09-22 22:25 ` Ivo van Doorn
[not found] ` <200809230025.03680.IvDoorn-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-22 22:27 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-22 22:32 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
[not found] ` <200809230032.37255.IvDoorn-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-22 23:47 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-23 7:04 ` Ivo van Doorn
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