Testing this driver with Medion S2218 / Z3735F netbook.

[hzulla]

Hi,

I'd love to help with testing this on my Medion S2218 with its Z3735F. Having this driver in mainline would be wonderful.

Currently running Yakkety Yak. Compiled using the instructions from here.

Kernel 4.4.0-9136: Compiled, worked, crashed after a few minutes. How to give you a meaningful crash report?

[hzulla]

Tried compiling for 4.8 with ppa:canonical-kernel-team/unstable.

make ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/4.8.0-6-generic/build M=/root/src/rtl8723bs  modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.8.0-6-generic'
  CC [M]  /root/src/rtl8723bs/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.o
/root/src/rtl8723bs/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.c: In function 'rtw_ioctl_wext_private':
/root/src/rtl8723bs/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.c:13858:5: error: implicit declaration of function 'is_compat_task' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  if(is_compat_task())
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/root/src/rtl8723bs/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/root/src/rtl8723bs/os_dep/linux/ioctl_linux.o] Error 1
Makefile:1489: recipe for target '_module_/root/src/rtl8723bs' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/src/rtl8723bs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.8.0-6-generic'
Makefile:1680: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2

[anthonywong]

Hi, for your first problem on 4.4, you can post your /var/log/kern.log. As you are running Ubuntu, you can also try the dkms package I posted in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1581711.

[hzulla]

Thanks for your response!

I watched /var/log/kern.log this time, but it's inconclusive.

kern.log.txt

This is the part of kern.log after compiling the driver and doing modprobe, then using the system for a few moments until it crashed. (Some lines of the log didn't end up on disk, I took a screenshot of the actual content while watching the tail -f and there were are few lines more that didn't get saved, but those are just a repeat of these here.)

The system crashed for no obvious reason while I was browsing the net with Firefox. The screen was still on, but the content frozen, the computer remained unresponsive (no mouse, no keyboard) and I had to toggle power to restart it. I checked /var/log/syslog and found no helpful entry there, either.