From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FzM9R-0004vT-Mj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:23:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k68NMIou008293; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:22:18 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k68NFTT4006950 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:15:30 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h2so400254nfe for ; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:15:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ujWZ7kc67LZynjOLrmGJUavQT1at0EyRIFBa1sYI/eeOpGSBZJZV0po0FM7hmO6x7CsA2BE+fmaaRbHta4CVbWB+hPVDiuHcIslmwYIHx0yT3zrJNbhXzj9qXrTJBic0Yt7GdWs+/lfglOmTS6ZXpvi+ekTgIyOcbBgRKVxzicA= Received: by 10.49.87.7 with SMTP id p7mr2527423nfl; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.203.3 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0607081615kb3f07b1ie9088a0c7f73dcbf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:15:29 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless worked, rebuilt kernel, wireless no longer works In-Reply-To: <20060708223726.GB3216@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0607081109ofb93391l411073c797060418@mail.gmail.com> <20060708223726.GB3216@princeton.edu> X-Archives-Salt: ee9ce1ce-fbb8-4a40-bf9a-e7b46ced0b7b X-Archives-Hash: f731b2df5faf594733476f8ddfce6feb On 7/8/06, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:09:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > > Hi, > > Why would wireless no longer work after rebuilding the kernel to > > add USB OHCI support only? > > > Since you rebuilt the kernel, you'd probably need to recompile > ndiswrapper against the new kernel. I saw that you mentioned that you > did just that. Perhaps first remove ndis from module.autoload, and see > if you can modprobe it by hand? It could be that even though you > recompiled ndiswrapper, it was compiled against the wrong kernel > version or something, so the module cannot load? > > This is the only thing that comes to mind right now. > > The new kernel that you compiled, is it the same version? Or a > different one? If it is different, perhaps you can try (if you saved > it) booting into the old one and see if you can modprobe ndiswrapper > (The old one should still be in /lib/modules under the correct kernel > version). > > Best, > > W Willie, Thanks. I did at least recompile ndiswrapper before I wrote this post. That alone did not fix it. The kernel was the same kernel - Gentoo stable - so 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 I think. I noticed that the machine was sort of sluggish with that kernel so I built a new real-time one - 2.6.17-rt5 from the pro-audio overlay. For that kernel I needed to build ndiswrapper for the first time, which I did, and low and behold when I booted into that kernel wireless did come up running right away so I think you're on the right track but for somereason it didn't work for me on the earlier kernel. I cannot explain why right now. I do have some problems that I'm going to have to work out. I am getting messages about 'device initiated installation' - or something like that - early in the boot process. Later the kernel posts a message telling me either net.eth0 or net.wlan0 cannot start until the boot process completes. I checked rc-update show and I see that I'm startign these in default, not boot, so I think what I'm doing is correct but possibly coldplug or hotplug is doing something wrong the way I'm configured. Anyway - right now I have wireless connectivity, which is great, but some problems persist that need to be addressed tomorrow. Thanks much, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list