Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Version: 2.6.8-13 Severity: important I recently tried to upgrade the kernel of one of my machines from 2.4.27 to 2.6.8. Most of the upgrade when fine, but the network card in the machine didn't work with the new kernel. The machine have several network cards, but the one in use is a WLAN card (PCI). discover recognized it and loaded the airo module for it, and the airo module recognized the card and claimed everything was just fine.
These are the relevant lspci (-n) lines: 0000:00:0e.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications PC4800 (rev 01) 0000:00:0e.0 0280: 14b9:0350 (rev 01) But, when dhclient tried to get an IP address, no replies from the DHCP server was detected. The stats from ifconfig reported lots of 'misc' errors on the TX line, but no pakcages transmitted. When the module was loaded, these messages were reported to syslog: kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0e.0 to 64 kernel: airo: cmd= 111 kernel: airo: status= 7f11 kernel: airo: Rsp0= 2 kernel: airo: Rsp1= 0 kernel: airo: Rsp2= 0 kernel: airo: Doing fast bap_reads kernel: airo: MAC enabled eth0 0:40:96:3a:64:bb kernel: airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters After trying several times to rmmod and modprobe the airo module, and running dhclient on the interface, the kernel started to send out lots of messages like this: kernel: airo: Bad size 58569 kernel: airo: Bad size 6106 kernel: airo: Bad size 26500 kernel: airo: Bad size 58570 kernel: airo: Bad size 6107 kernel: airo: Bad size 58571 kernel: airo: Bad size 58572 In between, it sent a few messages like this: kernel: airo: BAP error 4000 0 At this point, I decided to reboot back to the 2.4 kernel. How can I get the 2.6 kernel working with this PCI card? Without a working network driver for the WLAN card, I can't use the machine, so I have to stick with the 2.4 kernel for now. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.77 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]