Bug 137755

Summary:	rt2500 wlan driver in SMP kernel
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Dirk Gorissen <dgorissen>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Dirk Gorissen 2005-12-09 09:48:08 UTC

This report is a result of a post on the opensuse mailinglist:

>> Just want to note that it (rt2500) is not present in the SMP kernel (for us >> P4 HT folks).  This took me a while to realize, I am currently running a 
>> non-SMP kernel (detected without problems, albeit silently) but would like
>> to  switch back. No tips by any chance how i would enable the module in the
>> standard suse 10 SMP kernel?

>If you look at the sources for this driver, you'll see that the compile is 
>explicitly disabled for SMP. Usually that means it's broken in some way, so 
>you can't get it until someone steps up to fix it

I need the driver for my Linksys wlan usb adaptor. And since I would like to make use of Hyperthreading on my P4 machine I need an SMP kernel.
Any chance of fixing this issue?

Cheers
Dirk Gorissen

Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2005-12-09 12:36:43 UTC

Assigning to maintainer of wireless-tools.
Joachim, this is for you.

Comment 2 Joachim Gleissner 2005-12-09 14:22:37 UTC

The module is disabled as suggested by the rt2x00 developer. It's probably not SMP clean. Future versions are supposed to fix this. If you are brave enough, you can try to drive your device with ndiswrapper instead.