2.6.32 - works well vs not usable

Wintervenom · 2009-12-30 21:45:09

I seem to be having an issue with ath5k in 2.6.32.

EDIT: It's been fixed in the latest Zen 2.6.32.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2010-01-15 00:10:40)

bobdob · 2009-12-30 21:49:04

NeoXP wrote:

Please post a link to this solution.
Thx.

Here is the fix on the bug tracker. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17461

cyberpatrol · 2009-12-31 02:46:45

People who are using [core] and not [testing] can run into kernel panics with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2. There's one important package update from [testing] needed.

See FS#17649.

ozar · 2009-12-31 23:23:12

Update... I commented earlier that I've noticed no differences after upgrading the kernel, but after having a closer look, a couple of minor issues that have been going on for a couple of months have actually been cleared up for me with the new kernel.

TigTex · 2010-01-01 02:54:43

With me, kernel 2.6.32 completly broke my 2 wireless adapters. intel wifi link 5100 (looses conectivity after 2..3min, and than reconects) and realtek RTL8187L (can't ping router or anything after 1 second of conectivity, complete network failure, but still appears to be connected to "something").
Never had a complain but this 2.6.32 is giving me a lot of troubles.

Last edited by TigTex (2010-01-01 02:55:15)

kimera · 2010-01-01 11:38:47

Hi! After my recent kernel update (2.6.32) it happened that every time I visited http://www.blendfu.com/ with firefox 3.5.6, with Adblock Plus extension enabled, xorg freezed, only my pointer moves, but no click, no keyboard...
I've an Intel dual core processor with GM965 Graphic Controller.
Downgraded to 2.6.31 with KMS enabled, I've solved my problem.
Maybe I'll wait a little before update my system kernel again...

Bye

TemplarGR · 2010-01-01 12:17:46

Cdh wrote:

On my main PC the kernel works very well.
On my eee 1000h I have several problems: eeepc-laptop module is not loading and rt2860 wlan driver is not working, thus it's unusable for me.
So it's like 50/50 for me.

Try

iwconfig wlan0 power off

On my Acer aspire one AOA150X i am very satisfied. On my custom desktop pc, (Q6600,4gb ram, ati 3870), my wireless ralink rt61 needs the above command on everyboot, and ati kms is disabled. I haven't yet tried the hooks method.

Cdh · 2010-01-01 13:09:21

Wlan was set to off while booting with 2.6.32
I press the hotkey to enable wlan. The LED turns on.
Nothing happens.
I see no change neither in dmesg nor /var/log/everything.log
I have no wlan0 interface.
The wlan toggle script of acpi-eeepc-generic fails with saying that /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill/state is missing. I cannot find any rfkill state file anywhere in /sys
rmmod rt2860sta and modprobe rt2860 gives nothing, just each one line in dmesg : rt2860sta: module is from the staging directory [...]

I reboot. With the LED activated in the bios it says already, wlan is activated.
Magically there is a wlan0.
iwlist scan does not find any wireless networks, I have to do iwconfig wlan0 up. Then it finds ssids and can connect without problems.
iwconfig wlan0 power off fails with "Operation not supported".

I press the hotkey to turn wlan off. wlan0 does not disappear. iwconfig says it is still connected. I cannot ping anything. I cannot do ifconfig wlan0 up, I get SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted.
I press the hotkey again. iwlist scan says no scan results for wlan0. I still cannot ifconfig wlan0 up, still not permitted.
I rmmod rt2860sta and wlan0 disappears. I modprobe rt2860sta but wlan0 reappears. I can't still do ifconfig wlan0 up and still iwlist scan says no scan results.

So I cannot establish any wireless connection except after reboot with activated wlan.
Here is dmesg from second try: http://omploader.org/vMzRwbw

TryA · 2010-01-01 17:50:28

Since 2.6.32, my wireless adapter (an Intel 5100 too) can't associate at startup (net-profiles daemon) anymore, I have to bring up the connection manually after startup scripts. I tried some driver quirks in my wireless profile, but it did not help. Also, modesetting on my Intel integrated chip is screwed up with KMS enabled, as it was before 2.6.31.
I compiled the latest testing kernel (2.6.33-rc2) and it seems to have the same issues...

Oh, and a positive thing : 2.6.32 enables my keyboard backlight, yeah.

Last edited by TryA (2010-01-01 17:54:42)

Vamp898 · 2010-01-01 20:09:33

Cdh wrote:

No big discussion here, just kind of a poll. There seem to be so many people having problems that makes 2.6.32 unusable for them. But we don't know much of how many are happy with it.
So just a thread whether the kernel is usable for you and if kernel 2.6.32 as it is now is a good release.
Like:
On my main PC the kernel works very well.
On my eee 1000h I have several problems: eeepc-laptop module is not loading and rt2860 wlan driver is not working, thus it's unusable for me.
So it's like 50/50 for me.
My opinion: I think it breaks too much and should not be released in any distro.
How about you?

rt2860 works with every encryption except WPA/WPA2 Mixed so for example with WPA2-Personal it works

jasonwryan · 2010-01-01 22:19:51

I can confirm rt2860 works on my EeePC - apart from renaming the interface from ra0 to wlan0, which was unexpected but trivial. Otherwise, all good...

bmentink · 2010-01-02 01:01:32

bobdob wrote:

This update fixed the bugs for my netbook wifi card and introduced one for my desktop, but there's an easy work around.
The KMS was annoying tho. I had my ATI card running well with KMS enabled, but now I can't get early start to work. Late start works ok, so its not all bad.
Plus oss broke on my desktop but it fixed itself somehow.
Since its all working now and I knew about these issues before updating I can't really complain.

Hi can you tell us what the workaround is for the broken Wireless ... I have an RT2860 wirless card which is broke with 2.6.32
Thanks

nblock · 2010-01-02 09:12:53

i upraded to the new kernel yesterday. No problems except the non-working sound (snd-hda-intel).

rmmod snd-hda-intel
modprobe snd-hda-intel

and everything was ok … Strange

Cr0k · 2010-01-02 09:37:30

Works well on my Lenovo y530 (the one with Y6400, 4GB DDR3 and NVIDIA 9600M GS)

Roline · 2010-01-02 10:44:56

I have a 'high' cpu usage after the kernel update. Normally around 1/2 % and now around 10/20 all the time. Top doesn't show anything strange.
+ my screen flikkers once every 2 min. This is getting annoying, is there a fix?

Acer Extensa 5230 - Openbox

Last edited by Roline (2010-01-02 11:21:40)

mechmg93 · 2010-01-02 10:50:50

kernel 2.6.32 continues having problem with my atheros wireless card using ath5k, so i am stuck to 2.6.30.6.

loafer · 2010-01-02 11:58:57

For me: Inspiron 1720, Nividia 8600M GT suspend no longer worked in that on resume the laptop simply rebooted. According to the logs it suspended correctly and there was nothing to indicate a problem. Downgrade and it resumes correctly again. That was the only problem I encountered.

Cr0k · 2010-01-02 12:15:35

Roline : I had this problem too. I just remove gstreamer and reinstall an older version of udev (141-5), and it works normally now.

ksemeks · 2010-01-02 12:17:27

When i first upgraded the nvidia drivers (from nvidia.com) working al right, but my wireless got stuck on dhcpcd.
Downgraded the kernel to 2.6.31, but kept the 2.6.32 kernel-headers, because without them the nvidia drivers wouldnt work.
So now i am waiting for the fix for dhcpcd in 2.6.32.

Cheerios

Roline · 2010-01-02 12:45:49

Cr0k wrote:

Roline : I had this problem too. I just remove gstreamer and reinstall an older version of udev (141-5), and it works normally now.

Wich problem? High CPU or flickering?
For the flickering i tried to disable KMS (modeset=0). For the past couple of minutes it seems to work well. The only 'problem' is that boot is as ugly as it can be.

commander_keen · 2010-01-02 13:02:25

works fine now.
I only had some problems with the nvidia module.

Last edited by commander_keen (2010-01-02 13:03:07)

JohnnyRogers · 2010-01-02 15:28:04

With KMS enabled by default I lose my laptop's backlight control. Xbacklight still works, however.

Moppa · 2010-01-14 18:35:42

bmentink wrote:

bobdob wrote:
This update fixed the bugs for my netbook wifi card and introduced one for my desktop, but there's an easy work around.
The KMS was annoying tho. I had my ATI card running well with KMS enabled, but now I can't get early start to work. Late start works ok, so its not all bad.
Plus oss broke on my desktop but it fixed itself somehow.
Since its all working now and I knew about these issues before updating I can't really complain.
Hi can you tell us what the workaround is for the broken Wireless ... I have an RT2860 wirless card which is broke with 2.6.32
Thanks

Same here, RT2860 wifi-card and it is now broken with 2.6.32, reverted to 2.6.31.6 and it worked fine. I also noticed that i got a lot smaller fonts during startup and the boot-messages wasn't displayed properly.

piccolotux · 2010-01-14 22:47:34

Moppa wrote:

bmentink wrote:
bobdob wrote:
This update fixed the bugs for my netbook wifi card and introduced one for my desktop, but there's an easy work around.
The KMS was annoying tho. I had my ATI card running well with KMS enabled, but now I can't get early start to work. Late start works ok, so its not all bad.
Plus oss broke on my desktop but it fixed itself somehow.
Since its all working now and I knew about these issues before updating I can't really complain.
Hi can you tell us what the workaround is for the broken Wireless ... I have an RT2860 wirless card which is broke with 2.6.32
Thanks
Same here, RT2860 wifi-card and it is now broken with 2.6.32, reverted to 2.6.31.6 and it worked fine. I also noticed that i got a lot smaller fonts during startup and the boot-messages wasn't displayed properly.

How did you succefully downgraded to 2.6.31? Pacman says that glibc needs 2.6.32...Maybe you downgraded glibc as well?

Moppa · 2010-01-14 23:42:07

piccolotux wrote:

Moppa wrote:
Same here, RT2860 wifi-card and it is now broken with 2.6.32, reverted to 2.6.31.6 and it worked fine. I also noticed that i got a lot smaller fonts during startup and the boot-messages wasn't displayed properly.
How did you succefully downgraded to 2.6.31? Pacman says that glibc needs 2.6.32...Maybe you downgraded glibc as well?

I just did a "pacman -U kernel26-2.6.31.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz" in my /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ directory. It worked just fine. Upgraded and downgraded between 31 and 32 a couple of times to check different things.
glibc 2.11.1-1 is currently installed.

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