b43 is broken in latest net-2.6 and linux-2.6

b43 is broken in latest net-2.6 and linux-2.6

[Oliver Hartkopp]

Hello Michael,

my b43 wireless card (Dell 830) is not working with the latest net-2.6 (and
also linux-2.6 2.6.31-05767-gdf58bee).

net-2.6 2.6.31-03263-gc29854e is working
net-2.6 2.6.31-03301-ga97e178 is broken

I removed the patch with the work_queue stuff which did not help - so it's
probably the other patch you added to b43 recently.

Don't know ... the wlan0 link does not become ready anymore.

If you need some more information - please let me know.

Best regards,
Oliver

'cfg80211: fix SME connect' breaks b43 in latest net-2.6 and linux-2.6

[Oliver Hartkopp]

Hello Johannes,

your commit 'cfg80211: fix SME connect' breaks my WPA2 WLAN connection on a
b43 adapter.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=bbac31f4c0339f6c51afbd0edfb4959df9b53fa9

Oliver Hartkopp wrote:

> my b43 wireless card (Dell 830) is not working with the latest net-2.6 (and
> also linux-2.6 2.6.31-05767-gdf58bee).
> 
> net-2.6 2.6.31-03263-gc29854e is working
> net-2.6 2.6.31-03301-ga97e178 is broken

When reverting the mentioned commit it works again.

I'm running a Debian testing distro.

Regards,
Oliver

Re: b43 is broken in latest net-2.6 and linux-2.6

[John W. Linville]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:23:11PM +0200, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> my b43 wireless card (Dell 830) is not working with the latest net-2.6 (and
> also linux-2.6 2.6.31-05767-gdf58bee).
> 
> net-2.6 2.6.31-03263-gc29854e is working
> net-2.6 2.6.31-03301-ga97e178 is broken
> 
> I removed the patch with the work_queue stuff which did not help - so it's
> probably the other patch you added to b43 recently.
> 
> Don't know ... the wlan0 link does not become ready anymore.
> 
> If you need some more information - please let me know.

Is this working better now, with 2.6.31-rc1?

John
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Re: b43 is broken in latest net-2.6 and linux-2.6

[Oliver Hartkopp]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:23:11PM +0200, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>> Hello Michael,
>>
>> my b43 wireless card (Dell 830) is not working with the latest net-2.6 (and
>> also linux-2.6 2.6.31-05767-gdf58bee).
>>
>> net-2.6 2.6.31-03263-gc29854e is working
>> net-2.6 2.6.31-03301-ga97e178 is broken
>>
>> I removed the patch with the work_queue stuff which did not help - so it's
>> probably the other patch you added to b43 recently.
>>
>> Don't know ... the wlan0 link does not become ready anymore.
>>
>> If you need some more information - please let me know.
> 
> Is this working better now, with 2.6.31-rc1?

Thanks for coming back on this.

Yes it is fixed now.

   'cfg80211: fix SME connect'

broke it and

   'cfg80211: don't overwrite privacy setting'

fixed it afterwards (at least in my setup).

So it's pretty well working now.

Best regards,
Oliver