On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:29:47 +0100, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> I don't know what the origin is of your kernel so please provide some >>> details on that. >> >> What kind of information do you need ? >> >> As you probably noticed the kernel I'm running is 2.6.38-rc6. >> > > Yup. However, that is not unique by itself. Did you get it from a git > repository like linux-next maintained by Stephen Rothwell or linux-2.6 > maintained by Linus Torvalds, or did you download a kernel snapshot from > ftp.kernel.org. 2.6.38-rc6 is a tag, so it uniquely identify the kernel release whatever the tree you're using. But yes I'm using mainline tree. > >> >> Revelant part of lscpi: >> >> 12:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01) >> Subsystem: Dell Device 0010 >> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 >> Memory at fbb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] >> Capabilities: <access denied> >> Kernel driver in use: brcm80211 >> Kernel modules: brcm80211 >> > > Always useful to know what hardware you are using. Thanks. > >> >>> The patch itself can be found in the linuxdriver email >>> archive: >>> >>> >>> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-January/011381.html >>> >> >> Do you want me to give it a try ? >> > > I don't think it will apply cleanly, but sure go ahead. > >> >>> Not sure whether it applies to whatever you have. I just tried your >>> scenario >>> with my driver and hardware and no freezes during boot. >> >> My scenario is: >> >> - set the switch to OFF >> - insmod the module >> - bring up/configure the interface > > That's a bit different, but could you elaborate on the last step. Are you > using iw, wpa_supplicant, etc. or relying on NetworkManager. last step is (for example): iw dev wlan0 scan Thanks -- Francis -- 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
