[Mageia-dev] kernel-3.3.3 and wifi problems

Tue May 1 15:38:39 CEST 2012

2012/5/1 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+> 01.05.2012 10:25, simple w8 skrev:
+>>
+>> I have talked with some developers that use to maintain the
+>> compat-wireless stuff (that will be merged in kernel-3.5) and they
+>> havent this kind of problem.
+>
+> So they either:
+> 1. dont have exactly same hw.
+> 2. dont test stable tree
+> 3. have the fix in upstream tree
+>
+>> Cant this be some caused by some patch added into the mageia kernel >
+>> 3.3.1 releases?
+>> Since kernel > 3.3.1 is that i start detecting few wifi networks and
+>> if i run kernel-3.3.1 i detect again about 10 wifi networks like it
+>> used to happen.
+>>
+>
+> Well, that is why I told you to report upstream.
+>
+> Did you report that 3.3.1 worked and 3.3.3 stopped working?
+>
+> Anyway, checking commit logs between upstream 3.3.1 and 3.3.3
+> shows one commit that specifically touches the module you use...
+>
+> So can you try kernel-3.3.4-1.1.mga2 from:
+> http://tmb.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/bugs/3.3.4-rtlwifi-revert/
+> http://tmb2.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/bugs/3.3.4-rtlwifi-revert/
+>
+> If that works, you can ping upstream that:
+> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=eb641120479de7ee703fabb5e6ee0ec7947474ba
+>
+> broke your wireless.
+
+In fact with this kernel the machine is able to detect the same wifi
+networks that sued to detect with kernel-3.3.1...
+