On Sun 2012-09-09 15:40:55, David Rientjes wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On 3.6.0-rc2+, I tried to turn on the wireless, but got > > > > root@amd:~# ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.6 up > > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory > > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory > > root@amd:~# > > > > It looks like it uses "a bit too big" allocations to allocate > > firmware...? Order five allocation.... > > > > Hmm... then I did "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and now the > > network works. Is it VM problem that it failed to allocate memory when > > it was freeable? > > > > Do you have CONFIG_COMPACTION enabled? Yes: pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-good$ zgrep CONFIG_COMPACTION /proc/config.gz CONFIG_COMPACTION=y Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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