Hi Rob, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:28:36 -0400 "Rob Hussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric Valette wrote: > > > > > I can probably take a picture of the backtrace if you want. > > > > Just saw that just above my message in the LKML web interface, someone > > posted a backtrace. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two > > to have the crash. > > This is the same thing I said to Paul Rolland, since I think your > problems are the same: > I had this problem as well. It has to do with mac80211, cfg80211 and > the rate control algorithm not initializing early enough in the boot > process. These two patches should fix it: > > [PATCH] mac80211: fix initialisation when built-in > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/5710/match=patch+mac80211+initialisation > > [PATCH] cfg80211: fix initialisation if built-in > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/71326/match=patch+cfg80211+initialisation > Too bad gmane patches can't be applied directly, they seems to contain very strange <at> inside.... However, manually patching seems to be Ok. Kernel is now booting correctly, and I have : ... 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All bugs added by David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP' ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP' ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP' ... and after some iwconfig configuration steps, I have : wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:AF:0F:D7:90 inet addr:192.168.1.34 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::215:afff:fe0f:d790/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4798 (4.6 KiB) TX bytes:4566 (4.4 KiB) These two patches are a "must be" for 2.6.23 !!! Eric, feel confident, it seems really to do the trick, and the changes are subtle and mostly harmless. Regards, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
