Bug 436680 - Boot crashes bringing up rt61 wireless interface after upgrading to kernel 2.6.24.3-12
Summary: Boot crashes bringing up rt61 wireless interface after upgrading to kernel 2....
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2008-03-09 07:36 UTC by Patrick Sefton
Modified: 2008-03-14 14:01 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.24.3-34.fc8
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Last Closed: 2008-03-14 14:01:44 UTC
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Description Patrick Sefton 2008-03-09 07:36:06 UTC
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) :"

Comment 1 Patrick Sefton 2008-03-09 13:19:15 UTC
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.

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2008-03-13 15:10:50 UTC
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?

Comment 3 Patrick Sefton 2008-03-13 19:59:17 UTC
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.


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