I've been experiencing something similar in vmware, though I thought it was vmware's fault. (I have an 8187L.) In my case, detaching and re-attaching the device to the VM was sufficient to reset it. On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been having some curious problem with rtl8187 for about a week > - having problem associating with 'direct probe to AP <mac-addrr> > timed out' after a reboot, and/or switching between compat-wireless > modules. I thought it is a temporary problem with > wireless-testing/compat-wireless but obviously nobody else has seen > anything like mine from the mailing-list traffic. So I tried > bisecting, etc and the results are inconsistent. Then I came to a > vaguely working solution - it seems that I cannot modprobe > compat-wireless twice - i.e. I can associate with compat-wireless > after make install, make unload, modprobe; but modprobe -r then > modprobe -v again I can't associate . I thought about restarting > network manager, wpa_supplicant, etc without success, but the surest > way to re-gain connectivity is simply to blow away /lib/modules/`uname > -r`/updates, depmod -a and load the as-shipped modules. (and then I > can make install compat-wireless and use it, and the cycle repeats if > I unload compat-wireless and try to install a different > compat-wireless snapshot, etc). > > This is really curious, as it seems that I cannot unload > compat-wireless and reload it (or a later snapshot) without going > through as-shipped-by-distro modules ( 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64) in > the middle. How is that possible? One possibility is that as-shipped > module does a reset of hardware on unload or wireless-testing put the > hardware in a bad state on unload; but I know of no change of that > sort. Anybody else having problems associating after modprobe -r > /modprobe -v with recent compat-wireless/wireless-testing? > -- > 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 > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
