Subject: Re: b43 is broken in latest net-2.6 and linux-2.6

From: Oliver Hartkopp <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:13:39 +0200

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:23:11PM +0200, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>> Hello Michael,
>>
>> my b43 wireless card (Dell 830) is not working with the latest net-2.6 (and
>> also linux-2.6 2.6.31-05767-gdf58bee).
>>
>> net-2.6 2.6.31-03263-gc29854e is working
>> net-2.6 2.6.31-03301-ga97e178 is broken
>>
>> I removed the patch with the work_queue stuff which did not help - so it's
>> probably the other patch you added to b43 recently.
>>
>> Don't know ... the wlan0 link does not become ready anymore.
>>
>> If you need some more information - please let me know.
> 
> Is this working better now, with 2.6.31-rc1?

Thanks for coming back on this.

Yes it is fixed now.

   'cfg80211: fix SME connect'

broke it and

   'cfg80211: don't overwrite privacy setting'

fixed it afterwards (at least in my setup).

So it's pretty well working now.

Best regards,
Oliver