On 01/29/2012 02:40 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
This may be a fedora-specific problem - I noticed that just after booting into the new fedora kernel (3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64), I am getting a strange message from the kernel: rtl8187: Invalid hwaddr! Using randomly generated MAC address And it is setting my rtl8187 to an alien mac address instead of the usual one I have. The previous (3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64) works correctly, and as far as I go back through my /var/log/message, had never had this problem ever. The relevant changelog in the fedora package is this, so this might be a compat-wireless 3.3-rc1-2 problem? I checked rhbz 784345 which looked unrelated, although it is realtek (another driver). -------------- * Wed Jan 25 2012 Josh Boyer<jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> - 3.2.2-1 - Linux 3.2.2 - Add patch to invalidate parent cache when fsync is called on a partition (rhbz 783211) - Test fix for realtek_async_autopm oops from Stanislaw Gruszka (rhbz 784345)
The wireless device in 784345 uses iwlwifi. The Realtek device is a wired interface.
* Wed Jan 25 2012 John W. Linville<linville@xxxxxxxxxx> - modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint - Make integrated compat-wireless take advantage of the above * Wed Jan 25 2012 Josh Boyer<jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> - Backport patch to fix oops in rds (rhbz 718790) * Tue Jan 24 2012 John W. Linville<linville@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update compat-wireless snapshot to version 3.3-rc1-2 * Tue Jan 24 2012 Josh Boyer<jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> - Re-enable the ARCMSR module (rhbz 784287) - Add back a set of patches that were erroneously dropped during the rebase - Re-enable the LIRC_STAGING drivers (rhbz 784398) --------------------------------
I just checked, and rtl8187 works fine with my RTL8187L using 3.3-rc1 from wireless-testing. I don't know where the problem occurs.
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