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Re: [Rt2400-devel] rt2860/wpa dev status

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On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Ivo Van Doorn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> Ralink has provided a new driver for the rt2860 hardware,
> >> I haven't tested it yet but it deserves the attention for one simple reason:
> >> it hooks into mac80211.
> >> It doesn't hook into rt2x00lib yet, and neither does it support everything
> >> mac80211 could do, but it can be used as base for further developing
> >> the rt2800pci drivers by filling the last remaining gaps.
> >>
> >> The driver can be found here:
> >> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ivd/RT28xx_Linux_mac80211_20081203_V2.0-GPL.tgz
> >>
> >> Mark, Matthias and Felix you offered/provided help with the rt2800 developers
> >> before. I would really appreciate if you could help me with merging this drivers
> >> into the rt2800pci/rt2800usb drivers. :)
> >> (Other developers are off course welcome as well!)
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for doing some of the initial legwork. I have finally managed
> > to get workflow in place and attempt to do some useful work. I can get
> > a reproducible kernel oops by simply doing a 'ifconfig wlan0 up'
> > followed by a 'iwlist wlan0 scanning'. I do plan on digging into this
> > but here is the oops:
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000001c
> > IP: [<f80e9720>] rt2x00ht_create_tx_descriptor+0x20/0xc0 [rt2x00lib]
> 
> I fixed this issue 2 days ago, you might want to update your
> rt2x00.git checkout. :)

For reference:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git;a=commitdiff;h=28b51f4f5bc548beeb5477986f7e113d9bbb214a;hp=cdfc186f45ae72b288d4cc128363cd52c95e0aaf

Ivo
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