Bug#520622: Wifi does not work (AR242x)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

tags 520622 + upstream
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Hi,

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> W. Martin Borgert wrote:

>> The problem is solved in the current kernel from experimental.
>> Thanks to the developers who made this happen!
[...]
> This bug still needs to be fixed for squeeze in our kernel versions
> based on 2.6.32.  Please could you test whether the attached patches fix
> this bug?  Instructions for patching and rebuilding the kernel package
> are at
> <http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5>.

Ping.  Looking at [1], I don't see the patches in question backported.
It would be nice to have confirmation that they fix the problem so
they can be forwarded to Greg and go into a future stable update.

Thanks for catching the problem in the first place.

Regards,
Jonathan

[1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.32.y.git