linux-kernel - Re: Strange wireless card?

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Date:	Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:41:36 +0200
From:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange wireless card?

Op 05-08-09 05:06, Gene Heskett schreef:
> Greetings;
> 
> Can anyone tell me if this pci wireless card is supported, or what its 
> status is?
> 
>>>From lspci -v:
> 01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
>         Subsystem: Netgear WG311v3 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
> 
> I have built a 2.6.31-rc5 kernel with the Marvel stuffs all enabled, but
> even a modprobe mwl8k, while apparently loading the driver, doesn't create
> any wireless devices in /dev.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 

It could be due to a regression I caused, see this thread,

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/8/77

Could you test it with this?

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
index d699737..49fceb9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int get_common_rates(struct lbs_private *priv,
 {
 	u8 *card_rates = lbs_bg_rates;
 	int ret = 0, i, j;
-	u8 tmp[(ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1) * (*rates_size - 1)];
+	u8 tmp[*rates_size * ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1];
 	size_t tmp_size = 0;
 
 	/* For each rate in card_rates that exists in rate1, copy to tmp */
--
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