[Mageia-dev] kernel problem with wifi rfkill?

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Tue May 10 08:20:05 CEST 2011


tis 2011-05-10 klockan 02:57 +0300 skrev Colin Guthrie:
> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 09/05/11 18:32 did gyre and gimble:
> > mån 2011-05-09 klockan 20:05 +0300 skrev Colin Guthrie:
> >> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/05/11 17:58 did gyre and gimble:
> >>> It seems (after a chat with upstream) that this patch may be the culprit:
> >>>
> >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=commit;h=a3d77411e8b2ad661958c1fbee65beb476ec6d70
> >>>
> >>> It certainly sounds like it could be and may explain why you don't see
> >>> it (if you don't have this module).
> >>>
> >>> I'll try blacklisting it to see if that helps....
> >>
> >> It does, so I think this patch is indeed to blame.
> >>
> > 
> > Would you mind rebuilding a 2.6.38.5 kernel with that patch reverted,
> > and verify without blacklisting that it works...
> > 
> > If you dont have time to build, let me know and I'll build a testkernel
> > for you...
> 
> Not so much the time but rather the disk space... SSDs are fast but not
> very big!!! :p
> 


OK, a testkernel is building...

--
Thomas




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