On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 07:29 -0800, Brandon Dell wrote: > Hi Inaky, > Since many of us are having problems getting the card's WiMax > functionality to work in kernels >= 2.6.30 I have started to explore > exactly where things went wrong in the driver code. I am new to this > type of work but thus far I have gotten a cluged version of 2.6.29.6 > code to compile in my 2.6.31.2 build environment (before it would fail > whenever I tried running 'make'). However, I am now seeing kernel > crashes having to do with "i2400m_dev_bootstrap" whenever I insert the > card. I have included my error message below for your reference: > Bad kludge? :) forward/backporting has many pitfalls. Use the compat-wimax tree for that (the tip of it). Actually, I hadn't thought about this. Get the compat-wimax.git tree, use the tip. Build it and install it in 2.6.29.6. Does it work ok? Then build it and install it in 2.6.30. Does it work ok? If it does, then the problem got introduced in the USB stack and somewhoe the driver code is not dealing with it properly, but it'd be way easier to do a bisection from .29 to .30. In any case, confirming. You are the one that had a Dell E5500? Or another laptop? Thanks,
