On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:18 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I've noticed for a while that wireless is broken in linux-next, on both > the machines I use it on (a Fujitsu Siemens laptop using iwl3945 and an > Acer Aspire One using ath5k: both running openSUSE 11.1, with WPA): > I hoped to find it fixed later, but no, Linus's git is broken now. > > Only found time to bisect it a couple of days ago (on the Aspire One: > guess the other would show the same, but that's no more than a guess). > It arrived at the commit below as the culprit, which from your own > words doesn't seem like a very hopeful place to land :-( > > That commit does give me a "WARNING: at net/mac80211/mlme.c:1904", > followed by "WARNING: at net/mac80211/mlme.c:2308" every few seconds; > and those do get fixed later on (don't appear with latest git). > But I think there's another problem that comes in later, because > at this commit iwconfig does show my ESSID, whereas with later > git it just says "ESSID:off/any" (I have not bisected when that > change comes in). > > I expect you'll need a lot more info from me: please do ask > (but bear in mind that I'm wireless and network ignorant). Thanks. I'm not sure why you'd get the warning there every few seconds, but I suppose we don't really care all that much. I think you're probably running afoul of a bugfix that I did while at the wireless summit, and then the fix to it made it in, but not yet the fix to the fix :( Are you using an encrypted network, or an open one? If it's open, can you try this patch? http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/2009-09-24-17%3a32/010-cfg80211-fix-wpas-open.patch johannes
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