Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi Larry, > > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 20:54 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> When I tested 2.6.31-rc4-wl on my old i386 laptop that uses ifup to >> control the network, wireless did not work. The problem was bisected >> to the following: > > Thanks for taking the time to bisect the problem, can you be more > specific as to how the problem manifests itself? Are you using ifup to > configure an ad-hoc network? No, the network is in managed made using WPA2 encryption. I'm using ifup because that laptop is only used for testing, is quite slow, and does not run X. When I tried to test the latest version on my main laptop using ifup instead of the usual NM setup, I found that I had to modify my configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1. My udev rules explicitly rename my Broadcom devices to eth1. When I transferred the revised file to the other laptop, it also started working. With testing, it turns out the critical addition was "WIRELESS='yes'" I do not understand why a change in configuration was necessary at that point; however, the "regression" is only that a more complete configuration file is required. Please disregard this thread. Larry -- 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
