On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Larry et.al., > As I do not have a Toshiba laptop, I have no idea what the > change in BIOS setting might have done. All I know it happen every time, so if someone has any idea how to debug what is going on proposals are welcome. > I doubt that adding the rtl8192cfwU_B.bin firmware to your > system made any difference. The device that needs that > firmware is a B-cut RTL8188CE, and the code to drive it has > been submitted to wireless-testing, but not yet merged. I > expect that it will be in kernel 3.7. Kernel 3.6-rc7 from > mainline contains code that detects the B-cut device and logs a > warning, but there are no other changes. > > The output of the dmesg command will say what firmware has been > loaded. Well, I had no idea about any firmware update before I compiled Linus git commit e5e77cf9f9a275083f9a365a20d956fa8a67803e and after boot the driver was more broken. With rmmod & modprobe I realized rtl8192cfwU_B.bin was expected, so I added it to /usr/lib/firmware/ manually from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=blob_plain;f=rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin;hb=HEAD That made dmesg telling insmod is happy... kerolasa@kerolasa-home ~ dmesg | grep rtl [ 7.901371] rtl8192ce: ****** This B_CUT device may not work with kernels 3.6 and earlier [ 7.901383] rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin [ 8.104591] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc' [ 8.105394] rtlwifi: wireless switch is on ...and quite frankly so am I, even tough this is strange way to fix peculiar problem. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- 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
