On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:21 -0700, Chatre, Reinette wrote: > On , Vincent C Jones wrote: > > > Agree, it should not be necessary to use both iwconfig & > > wpa_supplicant, but somewhere between the last official release for > > Intel 4965 and the latest the 3/27/2008 release, it has become > > necessary, at least for some of us. SuSE 10.3, all kernels tried from > > 2.6.22 through 2.6.25-rc4. Some data points which might give > > you a clue: > > To check we are using the same code ... could you please use the latest > iwlwifi driver by making use of the compat-wireless project > (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download)? > > > > > Incidentally, should the 802.11n work using 802.11n draft on 5Ghz? > > yes > > Reinette Downloaded, compiled and tested with today's version (compat-wireless-2008-04-02) compat-release "2.8-50-g7b9853d". Same results as before: iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.26k iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64 iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN iwl4965: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs' ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 wlan0: authentication frame received from 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40, but not in authenticate state - ignored wlan0: RX deauthentication from 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 (reason=6) wlan0: deauthenticated execute - iwconfig wlan0 chan 149 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1a:c1:8a:23:40 (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated Note that upon further testing, I don't need to specify the AP address, only the channel to use, and only if the channel is in the 5Ghz band. Other info: uname -a Linux X61 2.6.22.17-0.1-test #2 SMP Tue Apr 1 11:33:27 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Lenovo 7675CTO X61 ThinkPad T7500 (2.2MHz Core-2 Duo), SuSE 10.3 X86_64 Any other info that would help (or tests to run), just let me know. Vince -- 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
