Bug 165993 – net-wireless/rt2500 does not work with gentoo-sources-2.6.20 (not the compiling-problem!)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Thomas Riedel 2007-02-08 21:05:14 UTC]

Compiling the rt2500-Package against the 2.6.20-gentoo-sources works and the rt2500-module loads fine, but with this my router cannot detect the access-point
(cannot even pinged).
I synced today so the compiling fix for 2.6.20 is included.
dmesg shows this then:

Feb  8 19:00:10 schleppi rt2500MlmeEnqueue full, msg dropped and may corrupt MLME
Feb  8 19:00:14 schleppi rt2500MlmeEnqueue full, msg dropped and may corrupt MLME
Feb  8 19:00:24 schleppi rt2500MlmeEnqueue full, msg dropped and may corrupt MLME
Feb  8 19:02:00 schleppi rt2500 SIOCSIWTXPOW: Setting txpower off is not supported
Feb  8 19:02:05 schleppi rt2500 EEPROM:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14  Channel
Feb  8 19:02:05 schleppi rt2500 EEPROM:  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  dBm Maximum

Only the line:

Feb  8 19:00:10 schleppi rt2500MlmeEnqueue full, msg dropped and may corrupt MLME

is the problem, the other messages also occur in working configurations.
I think its a problem with the generated kernel module, because the with the same network-configuration I got the following scenarios that work and do not show the error in dmesg:

1. the same Gentoo rt2500-Package compiled against gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r6
2. the nightly snapshot of the rt2500-Package from today, downloaded from

   http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/
 
   works with gentoo-sources-2.6.20

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.buy a wlan-card with the rt2500-Chipset from Ralink.
2.emerge rt2500 against 2.6.20-gentoo
3.try to get a connection to your router/accesspoint

Actual Results:  
no connection to accesspoint possible, ping shows:

Destination Host Unreachable

Expected Results:  
you should get access to the router

schleppi pd983 # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo i686 mobile AMD Athlon (tm) 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:20:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.20
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.stud.fh-dortmund.de/mirror/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=35"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_mpu401 alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol amr arts asf audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdf cdr chipcard cli cracklib crypt css cups curl divx divx4linux dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread effects elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif fam fame fbcon fbsplash ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fping fpx freetype gcj gdbm geldkarte geoip ggi gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gmedia gnokii gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gtkhtml iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inkjar input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text lcms libaudiofile libcaca libg++ libgda libsamplerate linguas_de live logitech-mouse logrotate mad mbrola midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mod modplug motif moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer msn musepack ncurses nls nogecko-sdk nosrc nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl physfs plugin png ppds pppd python qt qt3 quicktime quotes rar readline real reflection rle rtsp samba scanner sdl sensord session sid skey skins slang sms sndfile socks5 soundtouch sox speex spell spl sse ssl stats stream subtitles subversion svg swat sysfs syslog tcl tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tidy tiff timidity tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_radeon video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa vidix vorbis wifi win32codecs wma wmf wmp wxgtk1 wxwindows x264 xanim xine xorg xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib zvbi"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-02-09 18:43:57 UTC]

OK, I've added a cvs snapshot which I've tested against gentoo-sources-2.6.20 on ~amd64