Return-path: Received: from nm24-vm7.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([212.82.109.198]:44200 "HELO nm24-vm7.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752582Ab2A2Uqz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:46:55 -0500 Message-ID: <1327869629.89221.YahooMailClassic@web29503.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (sfid-20120129_214659_547682_0995EABF) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:40:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Hin-Tak Leung Reply-To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net Subject: rtl8187 behavior change/breakage with 3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64<->3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , Larry Finger , herton@mandriva.com.br MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 And it is setting my rtl8187 to an alien mac address instead of the usual one I have. The previous (3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64) works correctly, and as far as I go back through my /var/log/message, had never had this problem ever. The relevant changelog in the fedora package is this, so this might be a compat-wireless 3.3-rc1-2 problem? I checked rhbz 784345 which looked unrelated, although it is realtek (another driver). -------------- * Wed Jan 25 2012 Josh Boyer - 3.2.2-1 - Linux 3.2.2 - Add patch to invalidate parent cache when fsync is called on a partition (rhbz 783211) - Test fix for realtek_async_autopm oops from Stanislaw Gruszka (rhbz 784345) * Wed Jan 25 2012 John W. Linville - modpost: add option to allow external modules to avoid taint - Make integrated compat-wireless take advantage of the above * Wed Jan 25 2012 Josh Boyer - Backport patch to fix oops in rds (rhbz 718790) * Tue Jan 24 2012 John W. Linville - Update compat-wireless snapshot to version 3.3-rc1-2 * Tue Jan 24 2012 Josh Boyer - Re-enable the ARCMSR module (rhbz 784287) - Add back a set of patches that were erroneously dropped during the rebase - Re-enable the LIRC_STAGING drivers (rhbz 784398) --------------------------------