On 02/07/2017 12:54 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > The r8712u driver from the staging area has stopped working in Fedora > 25. This driver supports (among others) my emergency USB DLink DWA-130 > adapter that I use when the laptop's built in wireless (Qualcomm > Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac) is "too advanced" to connect to some old > wireless router. > > The r8712u driver works just fine in Fedora 24 and it seems to be > substantially unchanged. > > I ran 'modinfo r8712u' on both F24 and F25 and diff'd them. > The only differences are in the filesystem locations and labelling. > There was no other substantial difference. > > I've monitored dmesg while plugging the DLink adapter in and it's > apparent that > 1 - it is detected with proper vendor and product IDs. > 2 - the r8712u module is selected and registered. > 3 - the correct firmware is loaded from rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin > 4 - an endless stream of messages ensues: > [ 262.524809] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready > and, of course, the new interface never becomes available to > NetworkManager. > > > What's gone wrong? > Why does the same driver work in Fedora 24 but not in Fedora 25? > How do I regain operability? Disable IPV6 in NM? The message you're getting is IPV6-specific and that may be causing NM issues (it keeps waiting on a valid IPV6 address to become available, never does, and NM keeps waiting). That's just a guess. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - When in doubt, mumble. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
