Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.31.6 kernel feedback

[Wu Zhangjin]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:29 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Frederique W. Piccart schreef:
> > Compared to the previous kernel that had been put up a week or two ago,
> > nothing much changed for me, wireless got worse.
> > 
> > It seems, regardless if you press Fn + F5 at boot or not, that radio will
> > always be off at the beginning. Shortly after this there is a 40 - 50
> > second DHCP timeout procedure, which afterwards, the kernel will enable
> > wireless, but doesn't bother to connect to the Internet.
> 
> Wifi isn't working at all for me with 2.6.31.6. lsmod shows rtl8187b 
> instead of r8187. No amount of pressing Fn+F5 activates the LED nor a 
> wifi connection. dmesg shows this a few times:
> 
> rtl8187: rtl8187_open process failed because radio off

Thanks very much for your report.

Could you please check is there a yeeloong_laptop module loaded? if not,
please load it at first, this module is needed to make the Fn+F5 work,
'Cause that module include a hotkey subdriver to handle function
keys(the Fn+ESC,F1~F5,left,right,up,down).

and perhaps it is compiled into the kernel, you can check it via:

$ ls /sys/bus/platform/drivers/yeeloong-laptop/yeeloong-laptop/

the subdirectory input:input3/ is used to manage hotkeys.

If no such directory there, the module should have not been compiled.

To Robert Millan:

did you choose the yeeloong_laptop module? it is
drivers/platform/loongson/yeeloong_laptop.c, and the relative config
option is:

Device Drivers  --->
        [*] Loongson Platform Specific Device Drivers  --->
                <M>   Lemote YeeLoong Platform Specific Driver

It will enable the yeeloong_laptop module and the yeeloong_battery
module. These two modules have been merged into one yeeloong_laptop
module in 2.6.33, and the configure option have been moved to the menu:
        Machine selection  --->

Best Regards,
        Wu Zhangjin