[ATrpms-users] FC6 kernel update

[Phil Schaffner]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 08:47 -0500, Philip R. Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 07:01 -0600, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >         On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:01:46AM -0500, Phil Schaffner
> >         wrote:

Pardon [alter-ego-]self-reply the long post.  Not trimming as the trail
has gotten a bit cold - those holiday preparations and family
obligations do get in the way of debugging driver problems. :-)

> >         > Seems to be a bit bigger problem, although I can't quite see
> >         why.  Since
> >         > installing the 2868 kernel my ipw3945 networking is broken.
> >         
> >         Is this all with suspend2 kernels? Or for vendor kernel's? Or
> >         both?
> 
> Both.
> 
> >         > Even un-installing everything 2868 and falling back to the
> >         2849
> >         > kernel and kmdls for ieee80211 and ipw3945 it is still
> >         failing to
> >         > get an address from the router.
> >         
> >         That seems really strange.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> >         > Any suggestions or similar reports appreciated.  Anything
> >         else I can
> >         > supply?
> >         
> >         The most important thing is to compare the 2849 situation
> >         before and
> >         after. It just shouldn't be possible to have different results
> >         with the same content, unless ...
> >         
> >         a) Check under /lib/modules/*/weak-updates for spuriously
> >         copied over
> >            kernel modules.

Just empty directories.
         
> >         b) check for changes in the package contents rpm -V
> >         ipw3945-kmdl-`uname -r` ...

Nothing suspicious.

> >         c) check for kmods/dkms packages
> 
> No kmods/dkms in use on the system - only your kmdls.
> 
> >         d) try rpm -qa --last | less to see what other packages
> >         changed from
> >            working 2849 to broken 2849

Can send the list, but don't see anything relevant there either.

> At work now - will check a,b,d when I get home tonight.  Meanwhile, I
> did try the dual-boot installation of WindozeXP to make sure there were
> no hardware/misconfiguration issues.  WiFi works fine with the Redmond
> OS.

Just now was the first opportunity I've had to work this.  Booted
kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 and the ipw3945 now automagically works!  My
best guess is that soft rebooting without a power-down may have been a
factor.  Perhaps the ipw3945 hardware retains some memory on a soft
reboot that is cleared on a power-down.

Wandering a bit farther OT from the OP (or perhaps closer to the intent
before I hijacked the thread with ipw3945 issues) - I see the suspend2
kmdls are available now; however, a yum update did not pick them up even
though kernel-suspend2-2.6.18-1.2868_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2.i686 is
installed.  Installing them with Smart PM now.

Thanks for the help.

Phil