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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:07 -0700
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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Subject: Re: Prism54/p54pci
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Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009 19:56:30 Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>> On Friday 06 November 2009 21:52:42 James Grossmann wrote:
>>>> my caps lock & scroll lock leds are not blinking, and yet the computer
>>>> is frozen.  (I'm not the best at terminology, I guess that might not
>>>> be defined as a hard lock.)  I get no odd messages in my syslog.  I am
>>>> using Ubuntu right now, so I'm guessing that they have all the
>>>> prettyness going that they can, covering the important messages, but
>>>> as it's not an actual oops, I'm not certain that's hurting us.
>>> just a update:
>>>
>>> I can confirm the freeze with ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31-14 & 2.6.31-15-generic)
>>> + compat-wireless + p54pci (either as backport module or compiled from git).
>>> The original modules (shipped with 2.6.31-14/15) are fine though..?!
>> The Ubuntu Karmic linux-backports-modules package is based on
>> compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc4. I'm wondering if its something specific to
>> the p54pci driver? I'm using iwlagn (4965) from that package with no
>> problems (so far).
> 
> I put a ath5k card into the same machine and tried with the same
> compat-wireless modules. Surprise, surprise: no problems...
> 
> The affected device works fine with the current wireless-testing(pulled today)
> and a vanilla 2.6.31.6 + compat-wireless (from today's git).
> 
> I've no idea what voodoo is going on here, maybe there is
> something wrong in compat-wireless pci glue code (if there's any?!)
> 
>> Its not clear what version of stable compat-wireless you've tried.
>> Does compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc6 exhibit the same problem?
> "compiled from git", which should be compat-wireless-2009-11-12.tar.bz2
> and therefore -rc6.
> 

Just to be clear, the current wireless-testing is not at all the same as
2.6.32-rc6. Its my understanding that wireless-testing is John's
crack-of-the-day merge window test repository.

Anyway, I'm updating the Ubuntu LBM package to use
compat-wireless-2.6.32-rc6 which should be out by tomorrow. This
combination should closely resemble vanilla 2.6.31.6 + compat-wireless.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com