Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:23:31AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi Jonathan, On 27 November 2011 01:09, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Raphael Geissert wrote: I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works. So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs. Thanks for finding this. As Ben mentioned, Realtek's original rt2860sta driver was abandoned in favor of rt2800pci from the rt2x00 project[*] (the usual risk of using a staging driver). Indeed, the rt2800 driver works like a charm compared to the rt2860sta :) However, many people still use squeeze. So I would be happy to see the regression you discovered fixed. Some questions in that vein: 1. Just to check, can you still reproduce the trouble with the latest squeeze kernel? 2. Can you bisect? The squeeze kernel is on the squeeze branch of git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git; the usual make silentoldconfig; make; fakeroot -u make deb-pkg should work to build each revision one wants to test. I currently don't have enough disk space to accommodate such a setup, but will at least try with a live image or something similar. Back when I was affected I remember checking the different changes made to the driver, but they were all made in one big patchset that was added in a single commit, IIRC. HTH. I will anyway try to free up some space. Cheers, and thanks for picking up such an old bug :) Has this been tracked down or shall we go ahead and close the bug? Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130718164950.gb24...@inutil.org
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:57:24AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:23:31AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: On 27 November 2011 01:09, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Raphael Geissert wrote: I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works. So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs. Thanks for finding this. As Ben mentioned, Realtek's original rt2860sta driver was abandoned in favor of rt2800pci from the rt2x00 project[*] (the usual risk of using a staging driver). [...] Has this been tracked down or shall we go ahead and close the bug? It's not serious enough to fix in oldstable. Thanks for asking. Of course it wouldn't warrant a fix in oldstable, but I don't see any confirmation that this is fixed in Wheezy? That's why I asked. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130718182243.GA7744@pisco.westfalen.local
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:57:24AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: It's not serious enough to fix in oldstable. Thanks for asking. Of course it wouldn't warrant a fix in oldstable, but I don't see any confirmation that this is fixed in Wheezy? That's why I asked. Wheezy uses a different driver (rt2800pci instead of rt2860sta). Raphael wrote Indeed, the rt2800 driver works like a charm compared to the rt2860sta (2012-01-19). I consider that good enough. ;-) Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130718182820.gs14...@google.com
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
On Thursday 18 July 2013 20:28:20 Jonathan Nieder wrote: Wheezy uses a different driver (rt2800pci instead of rt2860sta). Raphael wrote Indeed, the rt2800 driver works like a charm compared to the rt2860sta (2012-01-19). I consider that good enough. ;-) Ack., and apologies for not testing after all this time. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201307182336.39318.geiss...@debian.org
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
Hi Jonathan, On 27 November 2011 01:09, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Raphael Geissert wrote: I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works. So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs. Thanks for finding this. As Ben mentioned, Realtek's original rt2860sta driver was abandoned in favor of rt2800pci from the rt2x00 project[*] (the usual risk of using a staging driver). Indeed, the rt2800 driver works like a charm compared to the rt2860sta :) However, many people still use squeeze. So I would be happy to see the regression you discovered fixed. Some questions in that vein: 1. Just to check, can you still reproduce the trouble with the latest squeeze kernel? 2. Can you bisect? The squeeze kernel is on the squeeze branch of git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git; the usual make silentoldconfig; make; fakeroot -u make deb-pkg should work to build each revision one wants to test. I currently don't have enough disk space to accommodate such a setup, but will at least try with a live image or something similar. Back when I was affected I remember checking the different changes made to the driver, but they were all made in one big patchset that was added in a single commit, IIRC. HTH. I will anyway try to free up some space. Cheers, and thanks for picking up such an old bug :) -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caa7hugectftqpwcmr9amxh2wphznsbsd4vwuuq+tdjggtjz...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
tags 593183 + moreinfo quit Hi, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Raphael Geissert wrote: I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works. So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs. [...] 1. Just to check, can you still reproduce the trouble with the latest squeeze kernel? Ping. Just a reminder that we are still curious about this. :) Thanks again for your help (and all the other work you do in Debian). Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111222114352.GA7924@elie.Belkin
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
Hi Raphael, Raphael Geissert wrote: I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works. So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs. Thanks for finding this. As Ben mentioned, Realtek's original rt2860sta driver was abandoned in favor of rt2800pci from the rt2x00 project[*] (the usual risk of using a staging driver). However, many people still use squeeze. So I would be happy to see the regression you discovered fixed. Some questions in that vein: 1. Just to check, can you still reproduce the trouble with the latest squeeze kernel? 2. Can you bisect? The squeeze kernel is on the squeeze branch of git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git; the usual make silentoldconfig; make; fakeroot -u make deb-pkg should work to build each revision one wants to test. Thanks again, and sorry for the trouble. Jonathan [*] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2027070904.ga14...@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
On Sunday 05 September 2010 10:09:30 Raphael Geissert wrote: On Sunday 05 September 2010 05:53:03 Ben Hutchings wrote: AFAIK rt2860sta has never worked with hidden APs. It has and it does with wpasupplicant, until I upgrade to src:2.6.32-18 or greater. I can try to test with one that isn't, and see if it makes any difference with the newer kernels. I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works. So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs. Has this been forwarded to upstream? -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009271418.06283.geiss...@debian.org
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 14:18 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On Sunday 05 September 2010 10:09:30 Raphael Geissert wrote: On Sunday 05 September 2010 05:53:03 Ben Hutchings wrote: AFAIK rt2860sta has never worked with hidden APs. It has and it does with wpasupplicant, until I upgrade to src:2.6.32-18 or greater. I can try to test with one that isn't, and see if it makes any difference with the newer kernels. I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works. So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs. Has this been forwarded to upstream? No, it hasn't. There isn't an upstream maintainer to send it to. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 22:49 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi, I've no longer had any problem with 2.6.32-5-686 and WEP-protected and similar APs. The only AP I'm still unable to connect to with -5 is a hidden WPA2-PSK-CCMP AP. I tried to take a look at the changes made in src:2.6.32-18 but the patch is too intrusive. AFAIK rt2860sta has never worked with hidden APs. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
On Sunday 05 September 2010 05:53:03 Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 22:49 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi, I've no longer had any problem with 2.6.32-5-686 and WEP-protected and similar APs. The only AP I'm still unable to connect to with -5 is a hidden WPA2-PSK-CCMP AP. I tried to take a look at the changes made in src:2.6.32-18 but the patch is too intrusive. AFAIK rt2860sta has never worked with hidden APs. It has and it does with wpasupplicant, until I upgrade to src:2.6.32-18 or greater. I can try to test with one that isn't, and see if it makes any difference with the newer kernels. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009051009.31132.geiss...@debian.org
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
Hi, I've no longer had any problem with 2.6.32-5-686 and WEP-protected and similar APs. The only AP I'm still unable to connect to with -5 is a hidden WPA2-PSK-CCMP AP. I tried to take a look at the changes made in src:2.6.32-18 but the patch is too intrusive. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinpacrez1bp_wof7lwr8jkuqeetba=v1njvd...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-18 Severity: important Hi, Upgrading to 2.6.32-18 more or less breaks support for the RaLink RT2860: wpasupplicant no longer works very well, I've seen it not even try to associate to encryption-less APs, not displaying the list of really available APs (especially name-less,) etc. Downgrading to linux-image-2.6.32-4-686 (2.6.32-11) makes it work just fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100816031705.4546.50042.report...@eee.home
