Hin-Tak Leung schrieb: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Barkle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a pci-card with a RTL8185 chip. >> [01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE >> 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)] >> >> Base on a Debian Lenny with >> kernel 2.6.30-rc5 >> wpasupplicant v0.6.9 >> wireless_tools 30 >> >> I can change some parameter on the card with iwconfig, for example the >> channel, but every time I try to get the card to work, the kernel freeze. >> >> Now I´m not sure, if this mailinglist is the right one, because it may be a >> problem of the hardware, the kernel or some userland tools. >> >> If you need any additional information, please ask me an I try to answer >> asap. >> > > Yes, this is the right list - a few things: > 1) dmesg should show a few line of info, including a line like this: > > wlan0: hwaddr XX:XX:XX:XX;XX:XX + > > we need at least that line, and anything else that's relevant in dmesg. > Have a look in the appended file "dmesg_2009-05-25.txt" and it's not wlan0, it's phy0. I hope, I haven't cut off too much . > 2) what do you mean by 'kernel freeze'? There is no more reaktion, no change by pressing num-lock, caps-lock or scroll-lock. No answer on a ping. What I didn't tested is the "magic SysRq". The computer should work as a server, only with the minimalistic program installt. So there is no X11 > do you get a pile of cryptic messages before No, just no reaktion. > Also, describe what exactly did you try to do, step by step. > After booting the system a call of the following line is enough: wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -W -dd The result is: *************************************** ~# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -W -dd Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'wext' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A' Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant' ctrl_interface_group='0' eapol_version=2 Line: 7 - start of a new network block ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=10): 54 65 73 74 5f 44 75 6d 6d 79 Test_Dummy mode=1 (0x1) key_mgmt: 0x4 Priority group 0 id=0 ssid='Test_Dummy' Initializing interface (2) 'wlan0' *************************************** And the the system doesn't react anymore. It the same as when the inteface is brought up by the ifupdown. No entry in the syslog *************************************** May 25 21:17:26 feta dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.42.25 port 67 May 25 21:17:26 feta dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.42.25 May 25 21:17:26 feta dhclient: bound to 192.168.42.29 -- renewal in 14223 seconds. May 25 22:20:15 feta kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started. May 25 22:20:15 feta kernel: Linux version 2.6.30-rc5-1 (root@feta) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) ) #1 PREEMPT Mon May 11 00:13:36 CEST 2009 May 25 22:20:15 feta kernel: KERNEL supported cpus: May 25 22:20:15 feta kernel: Intel GenuineIntel *************************************** > 3) have you tried compat-wireless? compat-wireless is ahead of > 2.6.30-rcX and occasionally have fixes to bugs which creeps into the > rc's.. OK, no I didn't tried the compat-wireless so far.. It will take a while, when I got an result of the change. Thanks so long