On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:05:56AM -0300, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio_Brito_ wrote: > > I upgraded to 2.6.26 to get a working rt2x00 driver > I'm also on the same boat, but I had a lengthy discussion and debugging > session with Ivo van Doorn, the maintainer of rt2x00, to get my wifi > stick working and, to cut a long story short, the driver stopped working > on 2.6.26 on (at least) amd64, but he told me that he found the problem > and fixed it on 2.6.27 (and I confirmed this on amd64, at least). > Are you able to use rt2x00 without problems on Debian's 2.6.26? Yes, but not for a USB stick, for a PCI version, so that could be the difference
> * I think that communicating this to the kernel team would be a good > thing. True, I guess ;-) > * The other thing that you can do is try to compile one of the > release candidates of 2.6.27 (or 2.6.27 proper, if it has already been > released). Mmmm ... I'll maybe try that. My main problem is that it really takes ages to compile on the G3 :P > > 00:0d.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > > Controller (rev 62) > > 00:0d.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > > Controller (rev 62) > > 00:0d.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65) (prog-if 20 > > [EHCI]) > I have a two port USB 2.0 card with a VIA chipset here that I will try > on my old PowerMac 8500 180/MP to see if I am able to use it. What are > the problems that you found with EHCI, BTW? It works for a few seconds and then the driver starts to reset the board. I googled a while ago and it seemed that this chipset was too buggy and that nobody could figure out how to make it work properly, so I gave up -- this is not much of a problem since my most common use of it on the beige G3 is for a printer which has only USB1 anyway. Thanks ! Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
