Re: Wifi not working after kernel upgrade to 2.6.29

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Am Freitag 10 April 2009 schrieb Ondřej Kučera:
> Thomas Bächler wrote:
> > Ondřej Kučera schrieb:
> >> I may look into that again in the evening but I'm quite sure that
> >> wpa_supplicant was running. I was able to run wpa_cli status without
> >> any weird errors or warnings. The only problem was that the status was
> >> "SCANNING" all the time (as I mentioned) which means that netcfg gives
> >> up after 20 seconds.
> >
> > So this means we have at least 2 different problems. Can you increase
> > netcfg's timeout? Does "iwlist scan" (as root) show anything?
>
> I think I tried increasing the timeout (although I don't remember to
> which value, I'll try again). I did try iwlist wlan0 scan and it worked
> without problems (I didn't see my AP but that's because it doesn't
> broadcast essid).
>
> > Also, active scanning is disabled by default due to regulatory
> > restrictions. If you install the crda package and set your country code
> > in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom (then reboot or run
> > /etc/rc.d/wireless-regdom start) you should be able to do active scans
> > again, maybe that helps, maybe not.
>
> OK I can try that as well and see what happens.
>
> Ondřej
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Ondřej Kučera
Does that mean you hide your AP? Hiding the AP never worked for me.
greetings
tpowa
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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
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