Comment 162 for bug 401126

I have a similar problem as carfer in post 152. I've been troubleshooting it for some time and even contacted realtek support to no avail. After several drivers from them and several loads of Ubuntu, they said "it's your environment". So I reloaded windows 7 on my 64bit Toshiba Satellite p505-s8980 and it my realtek 8191SE driver works absolutely beautifully. I would hate for my solution to have to be "go with windows because it works", so I once again got the lateset drivers, latest patches etc and loaded 64-bit Karmic. Same problem.

The driver installs fine, but as soon as the driver is loaded my messages, kernel.log and others are constantly flooded with messages like the following:

Jan 3 08:47:08 Ahwahnee kernel: [31353.698348] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:08 Ahwahnee kernel: [31353.698360] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:08 Ahwahnee kernel: [31353.698373] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.696563] GPIO 04h BIT6=30
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697099] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697112] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697125] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697137] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697150] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697163] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697175] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697188] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697200] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697213] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697226] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697238] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697251] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697263] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697276] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697288] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697301] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697314] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697326] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697339] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697351] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697364] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697376] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697389] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697402] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697414] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697427] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697439] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697452] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697464] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697477] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697489] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697502] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697514] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697527] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697540] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697552] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697565] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697577] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697590] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697602] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697615] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697627] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697640] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697653] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697665] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697678] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697690] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697703] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697715] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697728] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697741] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697753] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697766] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697778] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697791] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697803] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697816] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697828] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697841] wait for BIT6 return value 38
Jan 3 08:47:10 Ahwahnee kernel: [31355.697853] wait for BIT6 return value 38

I can use the various utilities provided by the driver and get different return values (30 and 3f to be precise) but nothing works. In addition, if I use wlan0down or any utility to disable the driver and then re-enable it, it increments a number. As of this writing I'm at wlan14 for example. Here's some other messages I see more intermittently or when I try to down and up the connection:

Jan 3 08:45:50 Ahwahnee kernel: [31275.351064] ================>r8192_wx_set_scan(): hwradio off

Jan 2 22:51:00 Ahwahnee kernel: [ 93.031668] Switch ctrl path fail
Jan 2 22:51:00 Ahwahnee kernel: [ 93.033392] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Jan 2 22:51:01 Ahwahnee kernel: [ 94.170279] GPIO 04h BIT6=30
Jan 2 22:51:01 Ahwahnee kernel: [ 94.170284] GPIOChangeRF - HW Radio OFF
Jan 2 22:51:01 Ahwahnee kernel: [ 94.170937] -------------->rtl8192se_cancel_hw_scan()scan abort start...

Jan 3 08:36:25 Ahwahnee kernel: [30710.589164] gen_RefreshLedState first init
Jan 3 08:36:25 Ahwahnee kernel: [30710.589170] =================> NIC version : C-cut
Jan 3 08:36:25 Ahwahnee kernel: [30710.709115] ===>rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:0x10, support_mode:0x16
Jan 3 08:36:25 Ahwahnee kernel: [30710.709120] <===rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:10, bEnableHT = 1
Jan 3 08:36:25 Ahwahnee kernel: [30711.021210] ===>ieee80211_start_scan_rsl()
Jan 3 08:36:25 Ahwahnee kernel: [30711.030926] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan14: link is not ready
Jan 3 08:36:26 Ahwahnee kernel: [30711.690667] GPIO 04h BIT6=30
Jan 3 08:36:26 Ahwahnee kernel: [30711.690672] GPIOChangeRF - HW Radio OFF
Jan 3 08:36:26 Ahwahnee kernel: [30711.691322] =========>NicIFDisableNIC()
Jan 3 08:36:26 Ahwahnee kernel: [30711.691331] PHY_SetRtl8192seRfHalt save BB/RF

I tried ndiswrapper to no avail with the factory drivers. I've beat my head on this and I'm pretty close to putting it back to Windows 7 indefinitely. Anyone?