On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Claudio <der.claudio@xxxxxx> wrote: > Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I tried twice with latest Ubuntu 8.10 (updated yesterday) and kernel >> oopsed both time for me: > > So it did for me. > > But the at76_usb that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 is actually a (very old) > 0.14beta1 version. Try $ strings /lib/modules/`uname \\ > -r`/kernel/ubuntu/misc/wireless/at76/at76_usb.ko | egrep \'0.1[47]\' > > Ad 1: It seems like Ubuntu ships an outdated version of the old > stand-alone driver. > > Ad 2: I\'ve found a work-around (I\'ve tried this earlier but it did not > work for any reason): adapting and compiling the 0.17 version of the old > stand-alone driver (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/at76c503a/) -> > It works again. > > Since this is not the perfect solution I would like to find out how to > enable the at76 driver from the staging tree and then vote for doing the > same in the Ubuntu kernel package. Well, how do I enable this driver > anyway? I think at76_usb was included to 2.6.28 and I doubt that ubuntu uses so new kernel yet. > Or what do you think we should do? Better to use the stand-alone driver from berlios for now and wait for ubuntu to upgrade 2.6.28. Kalle -- 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
