Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:55141 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753042Ab2IGIoS (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2012 04:44:18 -0400 Received: by eaac11 with SMTP id c11so819696eaa.19 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:44:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:44:10 +0200 From: Anisse Astier To: Larry Finger Cc: linux-wireless , =?UTF-8?B?5p2O5pyd?= =?UTF-8?B?5piO?= Subject: Re: rtl8192ce: activation problem with rtl8188ce pci card Message-ID: <20120907104410.62e43ca6@destiny.ordissimo> (sfid-20120907_104424_980817_EA99F20C) In-Reply-To: <5048F3D8.9030509@lwfinger.net> References: <20120905185510.2ab501cd@destiny.ordissimo> <50478E10.6030808@lwfinger.net> <20120905201437.70c008ca@destiny.ordissimo> <5047B508.5030606@lwfinger.net> <20120906161529.016b2202@destiny.ordissimo> <5048D138.1080109@lwfinger.net> <20120906202710.30c4bc8a@destiny.ordissimo> <5048F3D8.9030509@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:04:56 -0500, Larry Finger wrote : > Perhaps Chaoming knows something about this output. All I know is that you now > have the latest driver. > > If you apply the attached patch, it will log the firmware name. That will tell > us what cut you have. If you have quilt installed, you can "quilt import > filename" and "quilt push", otherwise just use the patch utility. I checked and > the version of the firmware files in this driver match those in the > linux-firmware git repo. firmware is rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin (UMC B CUT) > > From your name and E-mail address, I would guess you are in France. If you were Indeed. > in the US, I would send you one of my standard cards in exchange for yours so > that I could sort out the driver for it. Perhaps that would still work. I can send you a card. Please contact me in private. There's also no guarantee that it freezes on your laptops. Regarding your previous thought of it being an SMP/locking related issue: I tried disabling the second core in the BIOS (/proc/cpuinfo only shows one CPU) : no change. Anisse