Re: Regression with ndis and rt2860 on 8.0-RC1

From: Paul B. Mahol <onemda_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:08:21 +0200
On 9/24/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/24/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/24/09, Christian Laursen <xi_at_borderworlds.dk> wrote:
>>> Christian Laursen wrote:
>>>> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>>>>> On 9/23/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/22/09, Christian Laursen <xi_at_borderworlds.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some days ago I upgraded my Asus Eee 1000H from 7.2-RELEASE to
>>>>>>> 8.0-BETA4
>>>>>>> and then to 8.0-RC1 as of this morning.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since the Ralink Wireless NIC is not supported with a native driver
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> have been using ndis for a long time on 7.x without any issues.
>>>
>>> I just made a discovery.
>>>
>>> If I create a wlan device with wlandevice ndis0, I am able to associate
>>> and get traffic through the interface.
>>>
>>> I did get one warning though:
>>> wlan0: ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending SCAN -> RUN transition lost
>>>
>>> If I read UPDATING correctly this is the way to configure wireless
>>> devices on 8.0. As this is my first 8.0 system I was not sufficiently
>>> aware of that.
>>>
>>> However, a panic is somewhat unexpected in this case.
>>
>> Yes, there is still code path where vap is used when it is NULL.
>
> What about moving windrv_(un)wrap() calls from ndisdrv_modevent() to
> vap create/delete.

Forget that one it simple cant be done.
Instead I attached patch.

-- 
Paul

Received on Thu Sep 24 2009 - 21:08:23 UTC

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