Adapter first found, then ignored in 2.6.10rc3?

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Thu Dec 23 17:59:30 PST 2004


On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:26:06PM +0100, Bram Stolk wrote:

> hostap_pci has worked for me, quite some time, including
> with the 2.6.8.1 kernel.
> 
> I recently upgraded to 2.6.10-rc3, because my webcam needs
> this kernel.
> 
> Now, hostap_pci does not work anymore.
> What is *very strange* is that the driver first claims
> to have found a device, but later on decides nothing
> was found, and it de-installs the driver.
> 
> This is with the latest hostap version (2.5).

Linux 2.6.10-rc1 changed PCI driver registration in a way which is not
backwards compatible and Host AP driver v0.2.5 does not have the needed
changes since it was released before 2.6.10 (well, 2.6.10 is not really
even released yet).

Both the current CVS snapshot of stable branch and the latest release
from development branch (0.3.2) have support for the changed PCI
functionality in Linux 2.6.10.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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