On 03/12/10 17:20, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:19:01PM +0300, Janne Tanskanen wrote: >> Hi! I build a wireless access point using a-link wl54pc (pcmcia card, >> rt2500pci module) and hostapd 0.6.9 with kernel version 2.6.32-rc5. >> Problem is that even tho hostapd starts and iwconfig shows wlan0 in >> master mode, other computers cant find the wireless network. >> >> I found a working patch from here: >> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=32632#p32632 and >> all works now with it applied to vanilla kernel. Just wanted to post >> this to the mailing list and ask why it's not added to mainline rt2x00 >> kernel tree yet? Patch on forum is from May, almost half year ago. >> Hopefully it'll be included to mainline kernel asap. > > This is an old one -- sorry if no one got back to you sooner! > It looks to me like the equivalent of the patch you cited is available > in 2.6.34-rc1 (if not before) -- look for DRIVER_REQUIRE_DMA and > rt2x00queue_align_frame. There were some changes between 2.6.32-rc5 > and now, but I'm not sure if they affect things for your or not. > > Could you try 2.6.34-rc1 and see if things are working for you? > This indeed ought to be fixed already in mainline. Investigations show that a fix similar to the mentioned patch (in a different place in the rt2x00 code) was included in 2.6.32. See commit 93354cbbcbfca920495377158c0f61c36be79e13 of Linus' tree. --- Gertjan. -- 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
