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Re: iwl4965 - wpa_supplicant can't see 5Ghz frequencies - 2.6.26-rc1 kernel

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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Vincent C Jones
<v.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 00:23 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Vincent C Jones
>> <v.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The channel/frequency reporting by iwlwifi is incompatible with
>> >  wpa_supplicant for 5GHz (802.11A) channels. Version numbers and iwlist
>> >  versus wpa_supplicant scan results are below. Association still works if
>> >  the correct channel is specified using iwconfig, but that is
>> >  incompatible with roaming.
>>
>> Fixed by the patch ' iwlwifi: Fix frequency in rx_status fill'
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tomas
>
> This patch did not apply cleanly to plain 2.6.26-rc1: off by -4 lines in
> iwl-3945.c and by 1078 lines in iwl-4965.c. More important, it did not
> fix the problem of wpa_supplicant thinking the 802.11A access points are
> on channel 0. Same results with 2.6.26-rc1-git7, with & without patch.
> Any idea when this patch (and the patches it appears to depend on) will
> make it into the 2.6.26 release?
>

This patch is against wireless-testing.git, it's just too lines and
doesn't really have logical dependencies on other patches so I didn't
create a separate patch for 2.6.26...It looks maybe I should.
Can you  try to eproduce your problem on wireless-testing kernel with
this patch?
Also some logs will be useful

Thanks
Tomas



> Vince
>
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