Bug#496900: rt2500-source: RT2500 fails to connect on kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:09:02PM -0700, Houou Rinne wrote:
> I bring good news for a change. I seem to have found the problem sort of.
> I decided to check the differences in files for myself and since there were
> only 6 files or so with differences I decided to one by one try compiling with
> the updated cvs versions of the file and starting over if it failed. With some
> luck on my side I only had to do it twice. While I don't know the exact cause
> because I'm no programmer.

I'm impressed at your initiative, then!  Thank you very much for
narrowing down the source of the problem.

> When I replaced mlme.c with the "newer" one
> and compiled it started working again. The strange part is the "newer" one
> is actually dated 02/26/2008 which is of course older than the date of the
> debian package.So the question is did you change that file in packaging 
> it or did they revert to an older version after finding this or some other bug?

I modified the signal strength code because it did not work correctly
with multiple wireless interfaces.  But I must have introduced a new bug
by doing that.

> I'll wait for a reply before doing any more testing since you may know more
> than me on this subject. However, it shouldn't be too hard to mess around
> with it and figure out the exact lines that break it since I believe there are
> only a few lines of changes.

Correct.  Let me see if I can find a way to avoid both bugs.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Lowery's Law:
             If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
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