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Re: prism54 regression in current -git

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On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 06:42 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> The patch "prism54: set carrier flags correctly" makes my
> prism54 device in AP mode come up without a carrier, which
> in causes IPv6 to not add a link-local address, which in
> turn causes radvd (configured to announce routes on that
> device) to refuse to start, breaking IPv6 for the entire
> network.
> 
> I didn't check whether a carrier is detected once a client
> associates, but in any case it seems to me that a device
> in AP mode should always indicate a carrier.

Should always indicate a carrier _when it's configured and up_.  If you
just go 'iwconfig eth1 mode master' it shouldn't, but if you do:

ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 mode master essid foobar

then it should.

Dan


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