Bug#510191: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: madwifi compiles and works perfectly on 2.6.18 but same source fails on 2.6.26
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
Version: 2.6.26-12
Severity: important
madwifi source code hasn't changed in 18 months: works perfectly under
2.6.18-4-686, sets up wifi0 etc. etc. and yet exactly the same source
fails miserably under 2.6.26-1-686
lspci -v:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device
001c (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Unknown device 7108
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
Memory at b8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
/var/log/kern.log shows that - i _think_ - under 2.6.26 - that ath5k_pci
detects the device as phy0:
Dec 30 04:10:07 q1 kernel: [ 10.266466] ACPI: PCI Interrupt
0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Dec 30 04:10:07 q1 kernel: [ 10.266654] PCI: Setting latency timer of
device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
Dec 30 04:10:07 q1 kernel: [ 10.266775] ath5k_pci 0000:03:00.0:
registered as 'phy0'
Dec 30 04:10:07 q1 kernel: [ 11.062370] phy0: Selected rate control
algorithm 'pid'
Dec 30 04:10:07 q1 kernel: [ 11.549065] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2424
chip found (MAC: 0xa0, PHY: 0x61)
that's all you get. under 2.6.26... wait.... ath_hal doesn't look like
it's being loaded.... will provide further info in a follow-up report.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.87b tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-27 GRand Unified Bootloader
pn linux-doc-2.6.26 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.26-1-686:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.26-1-686:
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