#18711: RTL8187 driver loading but not producing wlan device
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Reporter: thewerthfam@… | Owner: developers
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Chaos Calmer (trunk)
Component: kernel | Version: Trunk
Keywords: kernel driver rtl8187 |
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Using (Bleeding Edge, r43718. Testing out different USB based WiFi
adapters looking for a adapter that works satisfactory in AP mode. The
rtl8187 seems to be recognized at boot but no wlan device is created.
Tried removing /etc/config/wireless and running wifi detect, tried
removing /etc/config/wireless and rebooting and /etc/config/wireless is
still empty. ifconfig doesn't show any wireless adapters either.
Here is the relevant dmesg output.
[ 1.409673] ehci-platform 1c1c000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 1.415952] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b,
idProduct=0002
[ 1.422814] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2,
SerialNumber=1
[ 1.430044] usb usb2: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[ 1.434919] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.14.26 ehci_hcd
[ 1.440424] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 1c1c000.usb
[ 1.445516] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.449303] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.453800] ohci-platform 1c14400.usb: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 1.460498] ohci-platform 1c14400.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned
bus number 3
[ 1.468341] ohci-platform 1c14400.usb: irq 96, io mem 0x01c14400
[ 1.533745] usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b,
idProduct=0001
[ 1.540577] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.546021] usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2,
SerialNumber=1
[ 1.553335] usb usb3: Product: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 1.559251] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 3.14.26 ohci_hcd
[ 1.564749] usb usb3: SerialNumber: 1c14400.usb
[ 1.569866] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.573651] hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.578152] ohci-platform 1c1c400.usb: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 1.584828] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234
[ 1.590399] ohci-platform 1c1c400.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned
bus number 4
[ 1.598270] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SA04G 3.67 GiB
[ 1.598342] ohci-platform 1c1c400.usb: irq 97, io mem 0x01c1c400
[ 1.610364] mmcblk0: p1 p2
[ 1.653717] usb usb4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b,
idProduct=0001
[ 1.660527] usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2,
SerialNumber=1
[ 1.667743] usb usb4: Product: Generic Platform OHCI controller
[ 1.673669] usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 3.14.26 ohci_hcd
[ 1.679150] usb usb4: SerialNumber: 1c1c400.usb
[ 1.684298] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.688085] hub 4-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 1.692446] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 1.705465] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature
incompatibilities
[ 1.714760] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature
incompatibilities
[ 1.732414] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem without journal.
Opts: (null)
[ 1.739981] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device
179:2.
[ 1.746991] Freeing unused kernel memory: 188K (c049f000 - c04ce000)
[ 1.769678] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-
platform
[ 1.931498] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda,
idProduct=8176
[ 1.938241] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[ 1.945435] usb 2-1: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
[ 1.950276] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 1.954395] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
[ 2.968747] random: mktemp urandom read with 26 bits of entropy
available
[ 6.031613] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): warning: mounting unchecked fs,
running e2fsck is recommended
[ 6.044810] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 9.421368] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 9.437703] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 9.442261] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 9.459725] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 9.474800] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 9.487308] sunxi-rtc 1c20d00.rtc: rtc core: registered rtc-sunxi as
rtc0
[ 9.494845] sunxi-rtc 1c20d00.rtc: RTC enabled
[ 9.507901] u32 classifier
[ 9.510717] input device check on
[ 9.515009] Actions configured
[ 9.520142] Mirror/redirect action on
[ 9.582352] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_wdm
[ 9.588892] Loading modules backported from Linux version
master-2014-11-04-0-gf3660a2
[ 9.599648] Backport generated by backports.git
backports-20141023-2-g4ff890b
[ 9.618462] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 9.629878] usbcore: registered new interface driver ipheth
[ 9.639367] usbcore: registered new interface driver kaweth
[ 9.653859] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16155 buckets, 64620 max)
[ 9.721706] pegasus: v0.9.3 (2013/04/25), Pegasus/Pegasus II USB
Ethernet driver
[ 9.729340] usbcore: registered new interface driver pegasus
[ 9.741839] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 9.785301] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[ 9.798137] usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
[ 9.811826] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_eem
[ 9.819908] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
[ 9.828436] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ncm
[ 9.836354] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_subset
[ 9.854731] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 9.862354] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 9.867521] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset
[ 9.873575] usbcore: registered new interface driver dm9601
[ 9.879594] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth),
(max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[ 9.889196] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A,
2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 9.898306] usbcore: registered new interface driver huawei_cdc_ncm
[ 9.905797] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A,
2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 9.920827] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A,
2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 9.928858] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A,
2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 9.943811] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz, 160000
KHz AUTO), (N/A, 2000 mBm), (0 s)
[ 9.959604] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5730000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A,
2000 mBm), (0 s)
[ 9.967703] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A,
2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 9.976494] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz),
(N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A)
[ 9.985956] usbcore: registered new interface driver kalmia
[ 10.015751] usbcore: registered new interface driver MOSCHIP usb-
ethernet driver
[ 10.045511] usbcore: registered new interface driver qmi_wwan
[ 10.059909] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host
[ 10.072288] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
[ 10.081865] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
[ 10.097637] usbcore: registered new interface driver sierra_net
[ 10.106518] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 10.129814] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_mbim
[ 10.138970] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb
[ 10.150614] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[ 10.161599] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc
[ 12.406430] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[ 12.780457] No MAC Management Counters available
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Derek
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18711>
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