Openmoko Bug #2277: Wireless does not work with the 2.6.29 kernel

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#2277: Wireless does not work with the 2.6.29 kernel
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 Reporter:  arhuaco  |          Owner:  openmoko-devel      
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:  stable-kernel-2009.1
Component:  unknown  |        Version:                      
 Severity:  normal   |       Keywords:                      
 Haspatch:  0        |      Blockedby:                      
Estimated:           |    Patchreview:                      
 Blocking:           |   Reproducible:                      
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Comment(by werner):

 Interesting. I also see this with
 9029dff1f370018665a6e2999632a34fd0518f4d,
 gta02_moredrivers_defconfig, and my minimal rootfs built in February. So
 user space is pretty much exonerated.

 My session went as follows:
 - booted and everything looked fine
 - iwlist scan and iwconfig essid both worked
 - association with an unencrypted AP succeeded. DHCP failed, but that
 appears
   to be a problem of that AP. (My laptop couldn't DHCP either.)
 - when I looked again a few minutes later, iwlist scan said "Interface
 doesn't
   support scanning." and iwconfig shows a "blank" interface and an attempt
 to
   set the ESSID yields "SET failed on device eth0 ; Input/output error."
 - unbind/bind did not solve the problem (!)

 What's interesting is that unbind/bind only went as far as
 mmc1: new SDIO card at address 0001
 and didn't print any of the AR6k-specific messages.

 - Werner

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