[adding linux-wireless to CC] On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly > related problems: I don't think they are related actually. > a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200 This is due to the recent sysfs restructuring I think. IIRC the fix is to upgrade hal to a current git version. > b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports: That one's strange. > A second attempt to enable WEP via iwconfig succeeds and network > connectivity is normal. However, NetworkManager still ignores the > device at this point. I'd think it's a ipw bug but I have no idea if that was even touched during this time. > Bisect with Mercurial points to this patch: > > $ hg bisect bad > The first bad revision is: > changeset: 46985:f701b96bb2f7 > user: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> > date: Wed Feb 07 10:37:11 2007 -0800 > summary: Network: convert network devices to use struct device > instead of class_device > > which corresponds to 43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278 in git. Yup, sysfs breakage/hal stuff. Can you try with a recent hal? And maybe try to bisect the iwconfig stop thing if you've got enough time... johannes
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