On Thursday 21 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:16 +0000, Chris Vine wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:50 +0100, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote: > > > > > I did that yesterday and it just reported a kernel panic on the terminal > > > > > with the message: > > > > > > > > > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! > > > > > > > > I have an idea, could you try below patch? > > > > Note that while applying it will mention something about a line offset, but that can be ignored. > > > > > > > > This could perhaps also fix the TX/RX issue mentioned earlier in the thread, but I am not > > > > quite sure about that. > > > > > > The patch applied OK (with some offsets as you say) but it doesn't help. > > > The kernel panic still occurs when association is attempted. > > > > Here's some further information. > > > > I have a fully functioning version of rt2x00-2.0.14 and mac80211 from > > wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6 of mid January which works fine on > > kernel 2.6.24. On doing a comparison with the rt2x00 in vanilla kernel > > 2.6.25-rc2, there are no material differences. (There was a slight > > change in the declaration a variable in rt2x00usb.c but it is > > immaterial.) > > > > I compiled up the working mid-January version of rt2x00 and mac80211 > > under kernel 2.6.25-rc2 and I get exactly the same result as I reported > > earlier, namely I get a kernel panic as soon as I try to associate. It > > looks therefore as if something has changed within the remainder of the > > kernel which has caused rt2x00 (and possibly mac80211?) to break. > > > > This probably explains the problem another user reported with rt61. > > Perhaps something similar like: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10058 > in there a reference is made to the following patch: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/broken-out/revert-send-a-single-notification-on-device-state-changes.patch > > Does applying that help? I'm afraid not, Ivo. The test I ran last night was against 2.6.25.-rc2-git4 and that already has this patch applied. Furthermore, I have another card that uses the rtl8180 driver and that works reliably. I, therefore, suspect that my problem lies within the rt61pci driver or the rt2x00 infrastructure. Chris > > Ivo > -- Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. - 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
