On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. We've had a lot of changes to compat-wireless recently so this is possible. John, can you cat compat-release on your compat-wireless directory? Luis -- 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
