On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 08:12 +0800, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:07:49 PDT, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said: > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-10-09-01-07 has been uploaded to > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > Broke my iwl3945 wireless card: > > Good (2.6.31-mmotm0917) > Oct 8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [ 0.809101] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks > Oct 8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [ 0.809106] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation > Oct 8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [ 0.809201] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > Oct 8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [ 0.879463] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels > Oct 8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [ 0.879466] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG > ... > Oct 8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [ 31.599751] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode > Oct 8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [ 31.697046] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.28.2.8 > Oct 8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [ 31.777214] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio > Oct 8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [ 31.777430] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc > Oct 8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [ 31.777545] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX > Oct 8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [ 31.777676] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX > Oct 8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [ 31.789446] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > (and then wpa-supplicant is able to bring the card up when it finally gets launched by initscripts) > > Bad 2.6.32-rc3-mmotm1009: > > Oct 9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [ 0.931788] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks > Oct 9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [ 0.944678] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation > Oct 9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [ 0.957831] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > Oct 9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [ 1.038946] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels > Oct 9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [ 1.038950] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG > > We never see the firmware load request, and of course everything goes > pear-shaped after that doesn't happen.... The firmware loading happens when the user space brings the interface up. Can you check NM is running for the bad case? Thanks, -yi -- 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