Re: [2.6.26-rc4] Problems with rt2x00 USB interface on powerpc

From: John W. Linville
Date: Sat Jun 07 2008 - 11:01:53 EST


On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 09:52:27PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> First of all, thanks John for taking the time to reply to my
> message.
>
> On Jun 06 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 04:30:01PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > I have an iBook G3 600MHz combo (late 2001 model, powerpc) with a USB
> > > wireless card rt2x00 that doesn't work.
> > >
> > > I just compiled a fresh 2.6.26-rc4 kernel and it can't get a lease from
> > > the access point, even though it is able to see the access point.
> > >
> > > The userland here is Debian unstable (sid) and I can perform some of the
> > > steps in the direction of configuring the interface. For instance, the
> > > following works (I am using wep as the encryption system with other systems
> > > running under Linux, but, unfortunately, EVEN disabling encryption for the
> > > sake of the tests doesn't help here):
> (...)
> > > (Here, it is unable to grab an IP addess from the access point)
> >
> > You should set the key _before_ setting the essid.
>
> Thanks, but that unfortunately doesn't seem to help. :-(
>
> I have taken dmesg "snapshots" of my system together with many other
> information regarding how it is configured and I put it at my
> homepage, at <http://www.ime.usp.br/debug/>.

404

> >From what I am seeing, it looks like the bug mentioned in
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9388>, but I don't get the
> stack trace that is present there and I'm just trying to use WEP
> instead of WPA or anything fancier.

Did you apply this patch?

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14384

John
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