The release is master-2009-07-08-3-g3615cdf /sys/class/ieee80211/ is empty I'm running Gentoo on an Lenovo R61. I don't think that there is anything too special about my configuration. Is there any more information that I can provide that will help debug? Thanks, John On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
