From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CAF13838B for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:47:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6DF8E0977; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [81.19.48.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A48EE0959 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.42.102] (unknown [213.233.132.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6191FA for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 19:47:14 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5432E3AB.7060108@thegeezer.net> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:47:07 +0100 From: thegeezer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cohorent pool size too small... References: <20141005135221.GC3856@solfire> <20141005145415.GE3856@solfire> <20141005174403.GF3856@solfire> <20141006084357.GC12584@TranscendTheRubicon.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20141006163406.GB3826@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20141006163406.GB3826@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b67b901c-9a6a-43b9-a58b-3c333331b377 X-Archives-Hash: d6bffb74b3901da44c6e6de09ab97303 On 06/10/14 17:34, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen [14-10-06 17:56]: >> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 07:44:03PM +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: >>> walt [14-10-05 19:36]: >>>> On 10/05/2014 07:54 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: >>>>> walt [14-10-05 16:16]: >>>>>>> On 10/05/2014 06:52 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> while trying to get a mt7601sta (UWN200 WiFi dongle) driver running >>>>>>>>> and working I came accross this in the dmesg output: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> [ 9.931938] usb 2-1: device v148f p7601 is not supported >>>>>>> This looks to me like it's the real error, not the one below. >>>>> What I dont understand is: If I provide the kernel driver...why does >>>>> the kernel "decides" not to support the hardware the driver itsself >>>>> supports...? >>>> Where did you get the driver? Are you sure it's really the right one? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> One of the main maintainer for the Beaglebone black kernel sources >>> (Robert C. Nelson) point me to his git repository of this driver. >>> >>> I am now back to kernel 3.8.13, where this stuff runs... >>> (The kernel I tried it before was 3.14.19) >>> But this kernel version get no much updates thess days and is >>> somehow old... >>> >> So you tried to run a driver for 3.8.x on a 3.14.x kernel? >> Such things often result in breakage as, while the kernels interface to >> userspace is very stable, the internal interfaces aren't stable at all. Likely >> there would be some other stuff necessary to get the driver to work properly. >> Some googling around led me to [1] though, which seems to imply that there is >> support on newer kernels (3.15.10 and newer), if you use the right patch... >> >> So maybe you are sucessful with that... >> >> WKR >> Hinnerk >> >> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg126291.html > > Moin Hinnerk, > (hopefully have guessed this greet correctly...I am from that > part of Germany ;) > > I have the source of the driver exclusivly compiled for 3.8.13 > as for 3.14.something (cant remember). > 3.14.x has some other problems (on that embedded platform) like > not powering off when shutdown, random reboots and such. > So decided to go back to 3.8.13. > Yesterday I started updateing (eix-sync and emerge) that Gentoo > and it ends up in an endless loop (bash update) of configureing > (damn slow on that mini iron) and compiling - just a small aside - you might like to read up on cross compiling and save yourself a world of pain http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/beaglebone/install.xml > as it looks - > of a single file. > After more than 10 hours I CTRL-C that, reupated and now I am > ...updateing the bash again. > Sigh. > Currently "fun" is something else... > > Is the 3.15.10++ branch free of things like random reboot and > not powering off? > > Best regards, > mcc > > >