On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/11/2012 02:13 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 01/11/2012 12:40 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This has finally been merged and is part of the 3.2 release. >>>> >>>> So now distros don't ship the brcmsmac driver anymore which is >>>> basically the only driver which can handle my card. >>> >>> I am not sure why you come to that conclusion, >> >> I checked on both OpenSuse and Mandriva, and they both have CONFIG_BCMA=m. >> >>> For kernel v3.3 the brcmsmac driver will be using bcma. >> >> Great. >> >> But v3.2... >> > > Given the configuration BCMA=m I agree that brcmsmac is probably not in > the distro in binary form. However, you can probably install the kernel > source package and rebuilt the kernel with BCMA=n and BRCMSMAC=m. > > Gr. AvS > and now using the brcmsmac gives the following WARN: [ 98.406709] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 98.406743] WARNING: at net/mac80211/rx.c:2979 ieee80211_rx+0x91b/0x9e0 [mac80211]() [ 98.406747] Hardware name: Vostro 3500 [ 98.406749] Modules linked in: rfcomm bridge stp bnep btusb bluetooth nfsd nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc fuse af_packet ipv6 arc4 brcmsmac mac80211 brcmutil snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_idt cfg80211 uvcvideo snd_hda_intel dell_laptop snd_hda_codec rfkill videodev snd_hwdep sg snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_mixer_oss snd mei(C) r8169 mii media v4l2_compat_ioctl32 soundcore snd_page_alloc sr_mod iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support intel_ips crc8 cordic dcdbas i2c_i801 i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core coretemp binfmt_misc cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf nvram dm_mod joydev dell_wmi sparse_keymap evdev kvm_intel wmi kvm video battery ata_piix ahci libahci libata sd_mod scsi_mod crc_t10dif ext4 jbd2 crc16 uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbhid hid usbcore usb_common [ 98.406857] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G WC 3.2+ #1 [ 98.406861] Call Trace: [ 98.406864] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8106809f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [ 98.406880] [<ffffffff810680fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [ 98.406896] [<ffffffffa050d2bb>] ieee80211_rx+0x91b/0x9e0 [mac80211] [ 98.406902] [<ffffffff8105776d>] ? update_curr+0x1cd/0x220 [ 98.406913] [<ffffffffa04f0dd9>] ieee80211_tasklet_handler+0xb9/0x160 [mac80211] [ 98.406919] [<ffffffff8106f43d>] tasklet_action+0xcd/0x110 [ 98.406924] [<ffffffff8106efda>] __do_softirq+0xaa/0x1e0 [ 98.406931] [<ffffffff8146792c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [ 98.406938] [<ffffffff81015255>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0 [ 98.406942] [<ffffffff8106edde>] irq_exit+0x8e/0xc0 [ 98.406948] [<ffffffff814681e6>] do_IRQ+0x66/0xe0 [ 98.406954] [<ffffffff8145da2e>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e [ 98.406957] <EOI> [<ffffffff8129e2e0>] ? intel_idle+0xe0/0x150 [ 98.406968] [<ffffffff8129e2c6>] ? intel_idle+0xc6/0x150 [ 98.406975] [<ffffffff8136e678>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xd8/0x1b0 [ 98.406980] [<ffffffff8101302b>] cpu_idle+0xcb/0x120 [ 98.406987] [<ffffffff814410c2>] rest_init+0x72/0x80 [ 98.406994] [<ffffffff81ac7cd9>] start_kernel+0x3c5/0x3d0 [ 98.406999] [<ffffffff81ac7346>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135 [ 98.407004] [<ffffffff81ac744d>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x103/0x112 [ 98.407009] ---[ end trace 4b7390abe635c92a ]--- Could anybody tell me what's wrong ? 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
