On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:11 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > Thanks for the dumps, the reason why the beaconing isn't working > > > is (fortunately) very obvious from the registers point of view. > > > The "generate beacons" bit is simply not enabled. However the reason > > > why this bit has not been set escapes me. Could you apply the attached > > > patch? This will add extra debug messages to the driver to see when the > > > beacon generation bit is set. > > > > I think mac80211 is probably not requesting it until you scan -- since > > once you scan it calls ieee80211_if_config internally and changes that > > bit. Some mesh code needs to call ieee80211_if_config() with the beacon > > enable change flag. > > Actually, it does, in ieee80211_start_mesh(). I have no idea then. I understood that in normal master mode rt73usb doesn't scan either, so my bet is that the bug is in rt2x00. :) Ivo -- 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
