[PATCH] nl80211: Allocate array of pointers for nla_parse

2007-01-16 Thread Marcus Better
The code allocates an array of struct nlattr, but it seems to me that it should allocate an array of pointers. Signed-off-by: Marcus Better [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ static int nl80211_initiate_scan(struct sk_buff *skb

[PATCH] cfg80211: Correct conditional compile of wext-common.c.

2007-01-21 Thread Marcus Better
wext-common.o is required if CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT is set. Looks like `CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS' is a typo. Signed-off-by: Marcus Better [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/net/wireless/Makefile +++ b/net/wireless/Makefile @@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ obj-ny := # this needs to be compiled in... obj

Re: dscape doesn't auto associate

2007-01-24 Thread Marcus Better
Jon Smirl wrote: Has this project moved elsewhere? http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant Apparently it's down at this moment: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hostap/15287 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH] d80211: select CRC32 functions

2007-01-24 Thread Marcus Better
The d80211 stack requires CRC32 functions for the WEP implementation. Signed-off-by: Marcus Better [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/d80211/Kconfig |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/d80211/Kconfig b/net/d80211/Kconfig index 7e2635f..d91f0db 100644 --- a/net

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: proper implementation of virtual interface support

2006-05-04 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jiri Benc wrote: This is unnecessary. AFAIK bcm43xx hardware doesn't support more than one interface at a time (not counting monitor interfaces as those are somewhat special). I wonder what exactly is causing this limitation? Why isn't it just a

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-09 Thread Marcus Better
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There _is_ an ARM BE version of Debian. It's not an official port, but it's not maintained any worse than the 'official' LE ARM Debian port is. Hmm... That changes a bit. Perhaps we should forget about that LE thing then,

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-09 Thread Marcus Better
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: Does that mean that the Debian ARM people have their heads so far up their collective asses that they think that every form of change is bad and are unable to accept that some forms of change might be for the better? Well, I am not one of the Debian ARM people, just a

Wireless tap device

2006-04-04 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi developers, is there a convenient way to inject 802.11 frames into the stack from user-space? I am thinking about something analogous to the tap device for Ethernet. That is, a virtual wireless device that would receive frames from user-space. I

Re: Wireless tap device

2006-04-05 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Kershaw wrote: Josh Wright and I have been working on a library to make a common injection layer across the drivers, Looks very interesting, but I had in mind exactly the opposite (if I understand correctly): packets written to the virtual

Re: Wireless tap device

2006-04-05 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Kershaw wrote: Looks very interesting, but I had in mind exactly the opposite (if I understand correctly): packets written to the virtual device would be received by the kernel, instead of going out to the radio. The kernel would think it had a

rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2006-06-30 Thread Marcus Better
I'm seeing this problem on my Acer Travelmate 223X laptop with built-in Realtek 8139: The ethernet stops working, usually after at most a few minutes operation. The problem appears in kernel 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, but not in 2.6.15. It prints the following in the syslog: Jun 28 07:50:36 kelev

Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2006-07-07 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (For those haven't followed, this is about http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/38493 ) Francois Romieu wrote: Marcus Better [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I'm seeing this problem on my Acer Travelmate 223X laptop with built-in Realtek 8139

Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2006-07-09 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Hellström wrote: Strange. I've also seen the i915 sending false interrupts on its own line, though. Here's the interrupt table with i915 loaded: ~$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 401031 XT-PIC timer 1: 3681

Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2006-07-10 Thread Marcus Better
Thomas Hellström wrote: Does the noirqdebug option fix the problem? Yes... but it breaks switching to a text console. I get an interesting fluid effect on the screen (a bright static pattern), and the keyboard locks up. Marcus signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2006-07-10 Thread Marcus Better
Thomas Hellström wrote: Does the noirqdebug option fix the problem? Yes... but it breaks switching to a text console. Are you _sure_ these are related? Yes. (I tried a few times and it always crashed, whereas without noirqdebug I've switched mode successfully hundreds of times.) Without the

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: hangs when logging in to X session

2007-11-05 Thread Marcus Better
Herbert Xu wrote: My laptop hangs when I try to log in to X with the current git kernel (commit 2a397e82c7db18019e408f953dd58dc1963a328c). It runs fine with 2.6.23. At boot time kdm starts normally, but hangs with the caps lock LED blinking immediately after I press Enter after