Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 436680
Boot crashes bringing up rt61 wireless interface after upgrading to kernel 2.6.24.3-12
Last modified: 2008-03-14 10:01:44 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: After upgrading from kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 to kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 and rebooting, wireless did not work. I re-configured the wireless adapter using system-config-network. Now the boot stalls / crashes at the line "Bringing up interface wlan0" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade from kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 to kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 2. Reboot -- wireless does not work at all 3. Use system-config-network to re-configure wireless adapter 4. Reboot 5. Boot stalls at "Bringing up interface wlan0" Actual Results: Machine will not boot -- stalls at "Bringing up interface wlan0" Expected Results: Boot should have proceeded, interface should have come up and then obtained an address through dhclient. (Still works reliably under kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8). Additional info: May have something to do with setting Mode=Managed for the wireless card; on some reboots, the machine stalls after "Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :"
Confirm this can be worked-around by downloading, building & installing a more up-to-date version of the rt2x00 wireless modules (I used the rt2x00-cvs-2008030906 snapshot). Download from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com. Could updated rt2x00 wireless module be included in the next kernel update? Thanks, Patrick.
The kernels here contain an update to rt2x00 version 2.1.4: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=42735 Could you give those kernels a try to see if they resolve this issue for you?
Thanks. I confirm updating to 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 resolves this problem for me. Note: I do see the following during boot (which I had not seen before): "Bringing up interface wlan0: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A): SET failed on device wlan0; No such file or directory." This seems like an unrelated problem though, and doesn't seem to affect the operation of wlan0, which now works fine. Patrick.