After making the bultins into modules, the compat drivers are loaded and used. Unfortunately, the same symptoms as my original e-mail persist, with repeated deauthentication (reason=3). I am using backports-3.11-rc3-1 On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/12/2013 06:44 PM, Colleen Josephson wrote: >>> >>> If you install the baclports drivers, they will replace the standard >>> ones. >> >> >> Even for drivers built into my kernel (not as modules?). Just making >> sure, as I seem to have encountered a problem: >> >> After installing the backports version of rtl8192ce and rebooting, >> wlan0 is not longer showing up when I run "ifconfig". >> >> lsmod shows compat and rtl8192c_common, but not rtl8192ce. If I try >> 'modprobe rtl8192ce' I get this error: "Unknown symbol in module, or >> unknown parameter (see dmesg)" >> >> dmesg shows "rtlwifi: Unknown symbol mac80211_ieee80211_rx (err 0)" > > > I'm not sure, but I would expect you need the standard ones to be modules. I > always build all wireless devices as modules. That way when one goes bad, > you have a chance to recover with an unload/load sequence with modprobe. If > it works, you save a reboot. > > I am assuming that you built mac80211 from the backported source. That is > required. > > Larry > > > > -- Colleen Josephson http://www.cjosephson.net Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
