From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: always set MSR_LINK_ENEDCA flag with RTL8187B
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:29:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8E9315.3000709@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ace41890908202054j62fda37ei64262890c6959f95@mail.gmail.com>
Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>
> This seems to be related to a problem I reported a while back - see
> the "compat-wireless won't associate on 2nd load" thread, I wrote on
> May 31. Supposedly I had that problem about a week before that, the
> date on the patch from Johannes is May 14, but I just went back to
> look at the mailing list archive and it looks like there were some
> problem with applying and John did some fix on 20th. So it seems that
> it might be the source of my not being able to load compat-wireless a
> 2nd time; and the description of the problem sounds like it too.
>
> Sorry I haven't been doing much with compat-wireless lately, so I have
> no firm data whether I have the same problem or not since May - that
> problem only happens if I switch from one compat-wireless to another
> compat-wireless, without rebooting - while I have tried
> compat-wireless in the last two months, I don't think I have followed
> compat-wireless as closely as I should to have two successive
> compat-wireless. I probably should go and have a try now.
This problem was quite strange. My system would fail when the RTL8187B
was inserted when the system booted. Unloading the driver did not
help, but removing/reinstalling the card fixed the problem. As all my
testing had been to install the card after booting, I never saw the
failure.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 0:16 [PATCH] rtl8187: always set MSR_LINK_ENEDCA flag with RTL8187B Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2009-08-21 1:07 ` Larry Finger
2009-08-21 3:54 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-21 12:29 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-08-22 22:06 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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