Bug#593183: broken rt2860 support after upgrade to 2.6.32-18 from -16

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Raphael,

Raphael Geissert wrote:

> I just tried with a visible AP (using the same crypto settings) and it works.
> So, the changes to the module appear to only break support for hidden APs.

Thanks for finding this.  As Ben mentioned, Realtek's original
rt2860sta driver was abandoned in favor of rt2800pci from the rt2x00
project[*] (the usual risk of using a staging driver).

However, many people still use squeeze.  So I would be happy to see
the regression you discovered fixed.  Some questions in that vein:

 1. Just to check, can you still reproduce the trouble with the
    latest squeeze kernel?

 2. Can you bisect?  The squeeze kernel is on the "squeeze" branch
    of git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git; the usual
    "make silentoldconfig; make; fakeroot -u make deb-pkg" should work
    to build each revision one wants to test.

Thanks again, and sorry for the trouble.

Jonathan

[*] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/