Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-26 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:11:39PM +, Chris Clayton wrote: > Sorry, but that's not the case. I find the same results as without the > patches. With the parameter set to 'pid', the network connection fails very > quickly, but with it set to 'simple' I can ping and ftp files to and from my >

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, > > I've bisected anyway and although the results are not absolutely > > conclusive, as I neared the end of the process, I was amongst a bunch of > > mac80211 patches. This set me on a path that resulted in me discovering > > that with the rt61pci driver, I can freeze my wireless network

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, I've bisected anyway and although the results are not absolutely conclusive, as I neared the end of the process, I was amongst a bunch of mac80211 patches. This set me on a path that resulted in me discovering that with the rt61pci driver, I can freeze my wireless network connection

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-26 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:11:39PM +, Chris Clayton wrote: Sorry, but that's not the case. I find the same results as without the patches. With the parameter set to 'pid', the network connection fails very quickly, but with it set to 'simple' I can ping and ftp files to and from my

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-25 Thread Ivo Van Doorn
Hi, > > > > Checking those out is simply a matter of: > > > > git branch 2.0.11 2d68de3efa62655d551092f5c787505735d561ad > > > > git checkout 2.0.11 > > > > > > OK, we seem to be struggling a little, so I've built an installed git > > > and cloned Linus' 2.6 tree. My wireless network

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-25 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, Firstly apologies for trimming linux-kernel and linux-wireless from my reply to Ivo yesterday. Basically, I replied saying that the patch below didn't fix the problem. But please do read on... On Friday 22 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > On Friday 22 February 2008, Chris Clayton

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-25 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, Firstly apologies for trimming linux-kernel and linux-wireless from my reply to Ivo yesterday. Basically, I replied saying that the patch below didn't fix the problem. But please do read on... On Friday 22 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: On Friday 22 February 2008, Chris Clayton

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-25 Thread Ivo Van Doorn
Hi, Checking those out is simply a matter of: git branch 2.0.11 2d68de3efa62655d551092f5c787505735d561ad git checkout 2.0.11 OK, we seem to be struggling a little, so I've built an installed git and cloned Linus' 2.6 tree. My wireless network dies after a few pings

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Vine
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 07:39 +, Chris Clayton wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: [snip] > > > > Does the same happen with 2.0.14 under kernel 2.6.24? > > Unfortunately, a 2.6.24.2 tree with the drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00 directory > replaced with that from

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Friday 22 February 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: > Hi Ivo, > > On 18/02/2008, Ivo van Doorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [...] > > > Above traces should be enough, but to determine where rt2x00 broke > > down approximatly I need to have a few test result on specific moments. > >

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Friday 22 February 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 23:04 +, Chris Clayton wrote: > > > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > This

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi Ivo, On 18/02/2008, Ivo van Doorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > [...] > Above traces should be enough, but to determine where rt2x00 broke > down approximatly I need to have a few test result on specific moments. > Could you test the kernel with the following versions: > > rt2x00

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi Ivo, On 18/02/2008, Ivo van Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [...] Above traces should be enough, but to determine where rt2x00 broke down approximatly I need to have a few test result on specific moments. Could you test the kernel with the following versions: rt2x00 2.0.11

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Friday 22 February 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 23:04 +, Chris Clayton wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: [snip] This probably explains

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Friday 22 February 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: Hi Ivo, On 18/02/2008, Ivo van Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [...] Above traces should be enough, but to determine where rt2x00 broke down approximatly I need to have a few test result on specific moments. Could you test

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Vine
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 07:39 +, Chris Clayton wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: [snip] Does the same happen with 2.0.14 under kernel 2.6.24? Unfortunately, a 2.6.24.2 tree with the drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00 directory replaced with that from 2.6.25-rc2-git4

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Clayton
On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 23:04 +, Chris Clayton wrote: > > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > [snip] > > > > This probably explains the problem another user reported with

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-21 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:16 +, Chris Vine wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:50 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > [snip] > > > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > > > I did that yesterday and it just reported a kernel panic on

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:16 +, Chris Vine wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:50 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > [snip] > > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > > I did that yesterday and it just reported a kernel panic on the terminal > > > with the message: > > > > > > Kernel

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:16 +, Chris Vine wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:50 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: [snip] On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: I did that yesterday and it just reported a kernel panic on the terminal with the message: Kernel panic - not

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-21 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:16 +, Chris Vine wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:50 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: [snip] On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: I did that yesterday and it just reported a kernel panic on the terminal

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Clayton
On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 23:04 +, Chris Clayton wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: [snip] This probably explains the problem another user reported with rt61.

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi Ivo, [...] > > I have an idea, could you try below patch? > Note that while applying it will mention something about a line offset, but > that can be ignored. > > This could perhaps also fix the TX/RX issue mentioned earlier in the thread, > but I am not > quite sure about that. > Sorry,

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:50 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: [snip] > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > I did that yesterday and it just reported a kernel panic on the terminal > > with the message: > > > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! > > I have

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 11:05 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:04 +, Chris Vine wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 11:05 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:04 +, Chris Vine wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] > > > > > > > > > > I have a

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:04 +, Chris Vine wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] > > > > > > > > I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, > > > > > > you

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:04 +, Chris Vine wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: Hi, [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, you mentioned you already enabled

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 11:05 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:04 +, Chris Vine wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: Hi, [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] I have a series of tests I would

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Ivo van Doorn
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 11:05 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:04 +, Chris Vine wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: Hi, [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:50 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: [snip] On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: I did that yesterday and it just reported a kernel panic on the terminal with the message: Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! I have an idea,

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi Ivo, [...] I have an idea, could you try below patch? Note that while applying it will mention something about a line offset, but that can be ignored. This could perhaps also fix the TX/RX issue mentioned earlier in the thread, but I am not quite sure about that. Sorry, but

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Vine
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Hi, > > [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] > > > > > > I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, > > > > > you mentioned you already enabled debugfs, and that is just what we > > > > >

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, > > > I've tried the patch but, unfortunately, my wireless LAN still dies after > > > a few pings. > > > > Could you use below patch instead, and make a new dump of the register? > > I'm still convinced the breakage occurs in the antenna diversity (or > > rather, I believe > > it attempts

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > > > I've tried the patch but, unfortunately, my wireless LAN still dies after a > > few pings. > > Could you use below patch instead, and make a new dump of the register? > I'm still convinced the breakage occurs in the

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] > > > > I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, > > > > you mentioned you already enabled debugfs, and that is just what we > > > > need. ;) > > > > Please use attached script to create dumps of the

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, > > I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, > > you mentioned you already enabled debugfs, and that is just what we need. ;) > > Please use attached script to create dumps of the hardware register > > contents. > > > > There are specific moments that should be dumped: > >

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, you mentioned you already enabled debugfs, and that is just what we need. ;) Please use attached script to create dumps of the hardware register contents. There are specific moments that should be dumped: - kernel

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, you mentioned you already enabled debugfs, and that is just what we need. ;) Please use attached script to create dumps of the hardware register

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi, On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: Hi, [...] I've tried the patch but, unfortunately, my wireless LAN still dies after a few pings. Could you use below patch instead, and make a new dump of the register? I'm still convinced the breakage occurs in the antenna

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, I've tried the patch but, unfortunately, my wireless LAN still dies after a few pings. Could you use below patch instead, and make a new dump of the register? I'm still convinced the breakage occurs in the antenna diversity (or rather, I believe it attempts a software

Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Vine
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: Hi, [added rt2400-devel (rt2x00 development mailinglist) to the CC list.] I have a series of tests I would like to request from you, you mentioned you already enabled debugfs, and that is just what we need. ;)

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi Ivo, On Monday 18 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > Hi, > > > In 2.6.25 kernels, my wireless LAN dies after even the smallest amount > > of network activity. The following screen cut shows what I typically > > see: > > How complete is this failure? Just TX or also RX? > > Could you use

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-18 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Almost forgot: > > In 2.6.25 kernels, my wireless LAN dies after even the smallest amount > > of network activity. The following screen cut shows what I typically > > see: > > How complete is this failure? Just TX or also RX? > > Could you use the tools found here: >

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-18 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, > In 2.6.25 kernels, my wireless LAN dies after even the smallest amount > of network activity. The following screen cut shows what I typically > see: How complete is this failure? Just TX or also RX? Could you use the tools found here:

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-18 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Hi, In 2.6.25 kernels, my wireless LAN dies after even the smallest amount of network activity. The following screen cut shows what I typically see: How complete is this failure? Just TX or also RX? Could you use the tools found here: http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/rt2x00/index.html

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-18 Thread Ivo van Doorn
Almost forgot: In 2.6.25 kernels, my wireless LAN dies after even the smallest amount of network activity. The following screen cut shows what I typically see: How complete is this failure? Just TX or also RX? Could you use the tools found here:

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Clayton
Hi Ivo, On Monday 18 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: Hi, In 2.6.25 kernels, my wireless LAN dies after even the smallest amount of network activity. The following screen cut shows what I typically see: How complete is this failure? Just TX or also RX? Could you use the tools