Re: [Rtl-wifi-devel] Realtek RTL8187B stopped working

[Markus G. <nie...@ly...>]

[ 3097.162716] rtl8187: Unknown symbol wiphy_rfkill_start_polling (err -22)
[ 3097.162739] rtl8187: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw

Tells me you should recompile your driver and kernel…
FWIW.

//M

On 19 Jul 2014, at 03:02 , Markus Gothe <nie...@ly...> wrote:

> Welcome to the beauty of open source….
> If it ain’t working use KGDB to debug it, fix it yourself.
> 
> That’s the real beauty of a long time dead driver…
> 
> //M
> 
> On 17 Jul 2014, at 12:14 , Hosam Hittini <h.h...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> Hello there,
>> 
>> I have Ubuntu 13.10 Server running 3.11 kernel, I also have two USB Wireless adapters as follows:
>> Adapter 1: Realtek RTL8187B chipset https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-lin...-g-usb-adapter
>> Adapter 2: AR7010+AR9280 chipsets https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-lin...nux-tpe-nusbdb
>> They claim that they work out of the box and they did, however, Adapter 2 had some limitations on frequency use
>> So, I recompiled backports 3.15 source files after doing some manipulations to get a more opened driver, these manipulations were only for Atheros drivers
>> Now, Adapter 1 stopped working, I tested the same adapter on another computer and it works fine
>> The adapter doesn't even show up in lshw -C network
>> I looked at the module in /lib/modules and the module is still there, apparently it wasn't modified recently
>> Kindly look at the following codes
>> 
>> hosam@Robin-05:~$ sudo modprobe rtl8187
>> ERROR: could not insert 'rtl8187': Invalid argument
>> 
>> hosam@Robin-05:~$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/3.11.0-12-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.ko
>> Error: could not insert module /lib/modules/3.11.0-12-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.ko: Invalid parameters
>> 
>> hosam@Robin-05:~$ dmesg | tail
>> [ 3097.162711] rtl8187: disagrees about version of symbol wiphy_rfkill_start_polling
>> [ 3097.162716] rtl8187: Unknown symbol wiphy_rfkill_start_polling (err -22)
>> [ 3097.162739] rtl8187: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw
>> [ 3097.162744] rtl8187: Unknown symbol ieee80211_unregister_hw (err -22)
>> [ 3097.162757] rtl8187: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_beacon_get_tim
>> [ 3097.162761] rtl8187: Unknown symbol ieee80211_beacon_get_tim (err -22)
>> [ 3097.162800] rtl8187: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rx_irqsafe
>> [ 3097.162805] rtl8187: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_irqsafe (err -22)
>> [ 3097.162828] rtl8187: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_rts_duration
>> [ 3097.162833] rtl8187: Unknown symbol ieee80211_rts_duration (err -22)
>> 
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>> Thank you
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Eng. Hosam Hittini
>> 
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