From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752388Ab1F0Psy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:48:54 -0400 Received: from mail04.solnet.ch ([212.101.4.138]:56274 "EHLO mail04.solnet.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752241Ab1F0Psw (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:48:52 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 407 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:48:52 EDT Message-ID: <4E08A4C9.60709@openelec.tv> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:42:01 +0200 From: Stephan Raue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: linux-3.0-rc4, wlan0 device is not showing with ifconfig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, running linux-3.0-rc4 my wlan0 device is not showing with ifconfig, even if the driver (r8712u) loads successfull. strace ifconfig shows: ioctl(3, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_flags=IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFHWADDR, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_hwaddr=80:1f:02:0b:5d:9a}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFMETRIC, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_metric=0}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFMTU, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_mtu=1500}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFMAP, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_map={mem_start=0, mem_end=0, base_addr=0, irq=0, dma=0, port=0}}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFTXQLEN, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_qlen=1000}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFADDR, {ifr_name="wlan0", ???}) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign requested address) close(3) = 0 the interface will be shown after i setup a ipadress manually: ifconfig wlan0 192.68.0.13 strace ifconfig ioctl(3, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFHWADDR, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_hwaddr=80:1f:02:0b:5d:9a}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFMETRIC, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_metric=0}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFMTU, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_mtu=1500}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFMAP, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_map={mem_start=0, mem_end=0, base_addr=0, irq=0, dma=0, port=0}}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFTXQLEN, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_qlen=1000}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFADDR, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_addr={AF_INET, inet_addr("168.0.0.13")}}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFDSTADDR, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_dstaddr={AF_INET, inet_addr("168.0.0.13")}}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFBRDADDR, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_broadaddr={AF_INET, inet_addr("168.0.255.255")}}) = 0 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFNETMASK, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_netmask={AF_INET, inet_addr("255.255.0.0")}}) = 0 is this problem known and is there a fix for this? many thanks Stephan