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On 7/8/06, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:09:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > Why would wireless no longer work after rebuilding the kernel to |
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> > add USB OHCI support only? |
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> > |
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> Since you rebuilt the kernel, you'd probably need to recompile |
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> ndiswrapper against the new kernel. I saw that you mentioned that you |
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> did just that. Perhaps first remove ndis from module.autoload, and see |
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> if you can modprobe it by hand? It could be that even though you |
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> recompiled ndiswrapper, it was compiled against the wrong kernel |
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> version or something, so the module cannot load? |
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> This is the only thing that comes to mind right now. |
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> The new kernel that you compiled, is it the same version? Or a |
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> different one? If it is different, perhaps you can try (if you saved |
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> it) booting into the old one and see if you can modprobe ndiswrapper |
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> (The old one should still be in /lib/modules under the correct kernel |
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> version). |
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> Best, |
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> W |
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Willie, |
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Thanks. I did at least recompile ndiswrapper before I wrote this |
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post. That alone did not fix it. The kernel was the same kernel - |
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Gentoo stable - so 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 I think. |
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I noticed that the machine was sort of sluggish with that kernel so |
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I built a new real-time one - 2.6.17-rt5 from the pro-audio overlay. |
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For that kernel I needed to build ndiswrapper for the first time, |
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which I did, and low and behold when I booted into that kernel |
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wireless did come up running right away so I think you're on the right |
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track but for somereason it didn't work for me on the earlier kernel. |
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I cannot explain why right now. |
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I do have some problems that I'm going to have to work out. I am |
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getting messages about 'device initiated installation' - or something |
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like that - early in the boot process. Later the kernel posts a |
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message telling me either net.eth0 or net.wlan0 cannot start until the |
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boot process completes. I checked rc-update show and I see that I'm |
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startign these in default, not boot, so I think what I'm doing is |
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correct but possibly coldplug or hotplug is doing something wrong the |
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way I'm configured. |
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Anyway - right now I have wireless connectivity, which is great, |
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but some problems persist that need to be addressed tomorrow. |
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Thanks much, |
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Mark |
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