On Mon, 14 May 2018 19:55:39 +0200 Michael Büsch <m@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2018 18:49:53 +0100 > Chris Vine <vine35792468@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have an old netbook with a Broadcom bcm4312 802.11b/g lp-phy > > [14e4:4315] (rev 01) wifi device. This works up to and including the > > 4.16 kernel, but not with 4.17-rc5. > > > > The b43, mac80211, cfg80211, ssb and mmc_core modules are loaded OK, as > > is the firmware, and the wlan0 interface will come up, but any attempt > > to use the interface fails and it cannot (for example) scan. > > > > No useful error messages are given. The interface (wlan0) is just > > reported as not being ready. > > Hi, > > thanks for your report. > > Can you please provide all kernel log messages anyway? > And what does "not ready" mean exactly? > > It would be extremely helpful if you'd do a git bisect to find the > commit that broke it. > Ok, I just noticed that mainline still contains the ssb breakage. So you are most likely hitting this: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10393729/ -- Michael
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