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Re: [ipw3945-devel] [BUG] Current head of wireless testing unusable

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Hi Maxim and Marcel,

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Marcel Holtmann<marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Maxim,
>
>> > > > I probably should work more to did these bugs out myself, but anyway I
>> > > > want to let you know what I currently see.
>> > > >
>> > > > First system oopses just after NM starts up, happens always, and after
>> > > > planting few test points bug happens somewhere in following lines.
>> > >
>> > > We are discussing a bug in the scan state machine in another thread,
>> > > which could have nasty consequences in not caught.  And I don't quite
>> > > understand why my system was catching it immediately, maybe because I'm
>> > > using gcc 4.4, which has array bounds checking.
>> > Yea, there are two patches with same title for this, I applied the
>> > newer.
>> >
>> > Currently thanks to Johannes Berg, the patch
>> > [PATCH] nl80211: add missing parameter clearing
>> > Fixes this nasty oops, now wireless more or less works, but plenty of
>> > problems still, first it oopses on reconnect as inilialized from
>> > wpa_supplicant, second iwconfig misses most of its settings, and
>> > probably thus NM think signal level is zero. If I switch to good old
>> > wext in wpa_supplicant, it works just fine and none of above problems
>> > present (I recheck this again to be sure)
>> Except very frequent reconnects,
>> "[  919.250097] No probe response from AP 00:1b:9e:d8:77:02 after 200ms, disconnecting."
>
> I have the same issue with my Intel 5350 card and if the signal strength
> of the AP gets a little bit weaker.
>

I also am seeing this frequently, and I'm sitting about six feet from
my access point. I don't think that it's necessarily related to signal
strength.

John
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