Hi Andreas,
On 27 aug. 2012, at 18:33, Andreas Messer <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Gertjan,
>
> Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 20:22:56 schrieb Gertjan van Wingerde:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> On 08/23/12 20:51, Andreas Messer wrote:
>>> Hey there,
>>>
>>> Am Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012, 19:33:34 schrieb Andreas Messer:
>>>> Hello Again,
>>>>
>>>> Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2012, 13:18:35 schrieb John W. Linville:
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:03:56PM +0200, Andreas Messer wrote:
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> updating my pc from linux kernel 3.3 to linux kernel 3.4 broke my wlan.
>>>
>>> I have spent some more time on investigating the cause of the bug and
>>> found
>>> the problem. Actually I'm not sure which is the right solution. The
>>> problem is caused by the following points:
>>>
>>> 1) The rt73 hardware registers are not initialized before bringing the
>>>
>>> corresponding network interface up ('ifconfig wlan0 up')
>>>
>>> 2) Bringing the interface up is not possible because of the kill switch
>>>
>>> 3) The GPIO input pin for the kill switch is still in 'output mode' (the
>>>
>>> default power on value), therefore the register will always read
>>> 'killswitch on'
>>>
>>> [...]
>> [...]
>> The reason why we do most of the initialization at interface up is that
>> that is the earliest possible time we can get the firmware image from
>> userspace. A lot of the register programming we have to do for
>> initialization depend on the firmware being uploaded and running, hence
>> we initialize most at interface up time.
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for that explanation. Didn't know that about the firmware.
>
>> Find attached a patch that does this for all the rt2x00 devices. I hope
>> you are able to test whether this patch fixes the problem for you.
>
> Yep, the patch works fine for me. (Tested on latest git snapshot)
>
Thanks for testing. I'll submit the patch-set upstream later this week.
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