On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:38:03PM -0600, Jake Edge wrote: > > After building 3.9 for my HP/Compaq 2510p laptop, the wireless (iwl4965) > would seemingly no longer connect. Actually, it seems that it *will* > eventually, where that is somewhere between 4 and 21+ retries (from KDE > network manager). Going back to 3.8 (and earlier) and the problem goes > away. (All on Fedora 18, fwiw, but I don't think that's significant). > > I bisected the problem to: > > commit 1672c0e31917f49d31d30d79067103432bc20cc7 > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Jan 29 15:02:27 2013 +0100 > > mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status > > but I can't (easily) revert that in 3.9 (maybe I can in -rc1 or > something? haven't tried that) > > What more information is needed from me? I may still mess around with > trying to revert that patch just to nail it down for sure, but two > separate bisection exercises ended up at the same place. Below patch should restore old mac80211 behaviour, by stop telling mac that 4965 supports TX ACK status. Does it help? diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c index b8f82e6..eaa756d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c @@ -5741,7 +5741,7 @@ il4965_mac_setup_register(struct il_priv *il, u32 max_probe_length) hw->flags = IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM | IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION | IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_BEFORE_ASSOC | IEEE80211_HW_SPECTRUM_MGMT | - IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS | IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS | + IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_PS | IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_PS; if (il->cfg->sku & IL_SKU_N) hw->flags |= -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
