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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:40:01 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: rtl8187 behavior change/breakage with 3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64<->3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
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On 01/30/2012 12:39 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:51:32AM +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> --- On Sun, 29/1/12, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>  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
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks for looking. It is mostly likely a fedora-specific problem then. Unless John has any idea, I'll eventually unpacking the fedora kernel source if the problem persists for another kernel.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hin-Tak
>>
>> P.S. Herton's e-mail seems to have changed.
>
> When I integrated compat-wireless into the Fedora kernels, I
> left it using the in-kernel eeprom_93cx6 driver.  Apparently some
> incompatiblity has krept-in, and several wireless drives stopped
> working.  I have changed the fedora kernels to use the version of
> eeprom_93cx6 now, so the next build should work alright.

John,

Thanks for chasing down this problem.

Larry