2012/5/1 Thomas Backlund <[email protected]>: > 01.05.2012 10:25, simple w8 skrev: >> >> I have talked with some developers that use to maintain the >> compat-wireless stuff (that will be merged in kernel-3.5) and they >> havent this kind of problem. > > So they either: > 1. dont have exactly same hw. > 2. dont test stable tree > 3. have the fix in upstream tree > >> Cant this be some caused by some patch added into the mageia kernel > >> 3.3.1 releases? >> Since kernel > 3.3.1 is that i start detecting few wifi networks and >> if i run kernel-3.3.1 i detect again about 10 wifi networks like it >> used to happen. >> > > Well, that is why I told you to report upstream. > > Did you report that 3.3.1 worked and 3.3.3 stopped working? > > Anyway, checking commit logs between upstream 3.3.1 and 3.3.3 > shows one commit that specifically touches the module you use... > > So can you try kernel-3.3.4-1.1.mga2 from: > http://tmb.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/bugs/3.3.4-rtlwifi-revert/ > http://tmb2.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/bugs/3.3.4-rtlwifi-revert/ > > If that works, you can ping upstream that: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=eb641120479de7ee703fabb5e6ee0ec7947474ba > > broke your wireless.
In fact with this kernel the machine is able to detect the same wifi networks that sued to detect with kernel-3.3.1...
