On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 09:11 -0700, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 21:25 -0700, John Ranson wrote: > > > [ 4.252445] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 > > > 802.11a channels > > > [ 4.252556] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X > > > [ 4.252945] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Failed to register hw (error -17) > > > [ 4.253255] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled > > > [ 4.253263] iwlagn: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -17 > > > > This is ieee80211_register_hw() returning error 17 (EEXIST). One spot I > > saw where this can happen is if you are trying to register with the same > > name (wlanX) already used by another netdevice. Does this sound possible > > in your setup? > > > > Johannes - do you perhaps have an idea when this can happen? > > This is strange -- I've had one report of this with 3945 which went away > and seemed to have been a compat only issue, I suspect this is also just > a compat-wireless issue, but I have no idea. > > -EEXIST should only happen if something has already claimed something in > sysfs, but not with netdevs (i.e. wlan0 would just be renamed to wlan1) > and phy0 is numbered all the time so that can't be it either. I don't > know. fyi ... I based my response on register_netdevice() being able to return -EEXIST at the time it checks for the existence of "name". Reinette -- 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
