[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#503101: Bug#503101: cryptsetup: Cryptsetup kills wireless

[Michael Pobega]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 09:26:44AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> package cryptsetup
> severity 503101 normal 
> thanks
> 
> On 25/10/2008 Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:06:47AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > > On 22/10/2008 Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > > > I doubt that cryptsetup really stops your wireless from working.
> > > > Instead, something else might have changed since you last recreated the
> > > > initramfs file that causes this bug.
> > > > 
> > > > What happens if you simply remove cryptsetup and regenerate the
> > > > initramfs file afterwards?
> > > > 
> > > > Is it possible to reproduce the bug over and over again (i.e: install
> > > > cryptsetup - system is broken. remove cryptsetup - system works. install
> > > > cryptsetup - system is broken. remove cryptsetup ...)
> > > 
> > > any news about the bug? I'm absolutely sure that your wifi troubles
> > > don't have anything to do with cryptsetup.
> > > 
> > > Please provide more information. Unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce
> > > the bug, as I've no hardware with wireless hardware.
> > 
> > I think the problem lies in HAL. When I keep the device activated it
> > works fine, but if I use my hotkey (Fn+F2) the device refuses to reload,
> > dmesg reports that the device didn't respond properly and couldn't be
> > loaded.
> 
> So did you test whether removing cryptsetup fixes the bug? Or does it
> appear with any new created initramfs file no mind whether cryptsetup
> ist installed or not? Please try to apt-get remove cryptsetup and make
> sure that the initramfs is recreated.

Oh yes, I did, and recovering the old initramfs makes the wireless work,
then aptly installing cryptsetup destroys it. The wireless works until I
switch it off with Fn+F2, and at that point it is just impossible to
turn back on.

> On the other hand the functionality of your hotkey should not depend
> on the initramfs as long as you don't want to use the hotkey early in
> the boot process.

The hotkey is just set to load/unload modules as far as I know, so if it
is a problem wit HAL then yeah, loading modules would be borked too. At
least these specific modules (ath_pci)
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