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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix autoloading of crypto modules for WEP

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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 13:39 +0200, Andreas Oberritter wrote:

> Right now, I cannot access the actual error message, but I can quote
> it from the web:
> 
> From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443545#c11
> 
>   ath5k_pci 0000:01:0a.0: registered as 'phy0'
>   phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
>   phy0: Failed to initialize wep: -2
>   ath5k phy0: can't register ieee80211 hw
>   ath5k_pci: 0000:01:0a.0: PCI Int A disabled
>   ath5k_pci: probe of 0000:01:0a.0 failed with error -2

99.9% of the time that's because the module isn't present (like in the
linked bug report) or because people have disabled module autoloading,
by setting /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to something bad.

FWIW, I have arc4 as a module and it always autoloads.

johannes

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