Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2009 19:56:30 Tim Gardner wrote: >> Christian Lamparter wrote: >>> On Friday 06 November 2009 21:52:42 James Grossmann wrote: >>>> my caps lock & scroll lock leds are not blinking, and yet the computer >>>> is frozen. (I'm not the best at terminology, I guess that might not >>>> be defined as a hard lock.) I get no odd messages in my syslog. I am >>>> using Ubuntu right now, so I'm guessing that they have all the >>>> prettyness going that they can, covering the important messages, but >>>> as it's not an actual oops, I'm not certain that's hurting us. >>> just a update: >>> >>> I can confirm the freeze with ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31-14 & 2.6.31-15-generic) >>> + compat-wireless + p54pci (either as backport module or compiled from git). >>> The original modules (shipped with 2.6.31-14/15) are fine though..?! >> The Ubuntu Karmic linux-backports-modules package is based on >> compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc4. I'm wondering if its something specific to >> the p54pci driver? I'm using iwlagn (4965) from that package with no >> problems (so far). > > I put a ath5k card into the same machine and tried with the same > compat-wireless modules. Surprise, surprise: no problems... > > The affected device works fine with the current wireless-testing(pulled today) > and a vanilla 2.6.31.6 + compat-wireless (from today's git). > > I've no idea what voodoo is going on here, maybe there is > something wrong in compat-wireless pci glue code (if there's any?!) > >> Its not clear what version of stable compat-wireless you've tried. >> Does compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc6 exhibit the same problem? > "compiled from git", which should be compat-wireless-2009-11-12.tar.bz2 > and therefore -rc6. > Just to be clear, the current wireless-testing is not at all the same as 2.6.32-rc6. Its my understanding that wireless-testing is John's crack-of-the-day merge window test repository. Anyway, I'm updating the Ubuntu LBM package to use compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc6 which should be out by tomorrow. This combination should closely resemble vanilla 2.6.31.6 + compat-wireless. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
