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Karol Krizka posted <200603251257.53037.kkrizka@×××××.com>, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:57:40 -0800: |
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> On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:35, Mark Haney wrote: |
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>> I just pulled down 2.6.16 from ~amd64 and now my ndiswrapper doesn't |
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>> work. I rebuilt the module and loaded it, the card is installed and |
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>> driver is present, but it's not allowing me to configure it at all. Is |
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>> anyone else having this problem. |
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> I haven't upgraded to 2.6.16 yet as I am waiting for the suspend2-sources to |
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> be bumped to that version. But I use the same drivers with ndiswrapper, so I |
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> am interested in hearing how you solve this problem. |
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I've had more issues with .16 than with anything for awhile, rcs included. |
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I caught one issue early enough (rc1) that I got it bugged and the |
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triggering change was rolled back, at least for .16 release. There's an |
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earlier thread about it (the one I started, dealing with the dead keyboard |
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on .16-rcs). They haven't traced why it happened yet, tho, only what |
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triggered it, only in theory what triggered it shouldn't have anything to |
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do with it, and release was due, so they rolled back the change, or more |
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precisely, it's still there but requires a kernel command line option to |
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activate, so it won't trigger the bug for anyone without the option, but |
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those with the issue that lead to the change (generally those running KVM |
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switches that had mouse issues after switching back to earlier kernels) |
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can still use the command line option to fix their issue. |
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I only found another late in the cycle, when I upgraded to 8 gigs of |
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memory from 1 gig. .15 and stable releases thereof work. .16 doesn't. I |
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haven't had time to trace that one further, however, and it's possible I |
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just don't quite have the kernel configured correctly and .15 just happens |
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to work anyway. This issue has to do with SATA, actually, I think SCSI. |
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With 8 gig of memory I'd normally configure IOMMU on but that doesn't work |
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with .15 or .16. With it off, .15 works, but .16 fails when it tries to |
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load the (libata based therefore SCSI based) SATA RAID, saying the SCSI |
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device nodes don't exist! My root is on RAID so this is early kernel, |
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where it first tries to load SCSI-then-RAID-then-rootfs-read-only, so it's |
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well before anything userspace side is running, so it /has/ to be a |
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kernel issue. There's a changelog entry saying they eliminated |
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bounce-buffers for SCSI that I think is the problem, since bounce-buffers |
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are >4 gig memory related, but as I said, I haven't traced it yet, so I |
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can't say for sure. On the one above, I would have guessed something to |
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do with the keyboard driver changes but to both my surprise and that of |
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the devs it was the mouse driver changes that did it (I got it down to a |
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single line, without which it was fine, with which I had no keyboard at |
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all, and that line was in the psmouse changes, /not/ keyboard), so I'm |
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being cautious in my attribution of this one. |
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Of course, from some of the comments I've seen, .15 was the bad one for |
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others, so who knows, but anyway, I'm not surprised to see that .16 is |
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causing issues for others, since it has caused me a lot of grief here, as |
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well. (This is vanilla Linus mainline kernels off of kernel.org.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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