On Sunday 04 January 2009, Andi Kleen wrote: > I got a > > 06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE > 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20) > > PCI card in a box. With 2.6.28 it works (although rather poorly, always > seems to eventually fallback to 1Mbit/s). With post 2.6.28-git latest the > card is still detected, but no wlan0 interface is created anymore, only > wmaster0: > > Some excerpts from the log. > > rtl8180 0000:06:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 > wmaster0 (rtl8180): not using net_device_ops yet > phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' > phy0: hwaddr 00:18:e7:49:f4:32, RTL8185vD + rtl8225z2 > > On 2.6.28 I get a wlan0 and roughly the same messages (except > for the net_device_ops one, but I think that's harmless) > > I first suspected udev, but there's no trace of wlan0 anywhere > in /sys, so it looks like it's not even create in kernel. > > Git tip 7d3b56ba37a95f1f370f50258ed3954c304c524b > Userland is opensuse 11.1. > > -Andi It should be a known problem already fixed in wireless-testing: try the patch http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/25813/match=rtl8180 Fabio -- 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
