On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Bob Copeland wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:52:27AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > This is on a laptop I don't use much, but with .31 wireless has always > > > been (and still is) reliable (.31-rc5 is the last kernel I built for > > > it). On my other laptop wireless (iwlagn) works fine with .32-rc1. > > > > Although iwlagn works, I would think this kind of thing: > > > ath0: authenticated > > > ath0: associate with AP 00:14:c1:38:e5:15 (try 1) > > > ath0: RX ReassocResp from 00:14:c1:38:e5:15 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2) > > > ath0: associated > > > ath0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3) > > > > ...is some kind of issue with userspace or wext rather than the driver. > > Ath5k only had a dozen or so patches this time around, so it should be > > easy to bisect if it's a problem in the driver. One possibility is > > hardware CCMP support but I've been using it here for some time. > > I doubt it's a userspace issue, but it does look like the regression was > not triggered by the ath5k driver itself. In the mean time I did a bisect > on the drivers/net/wireless/ath directory without any results. > > > By the way, name it what you will, but the standard is wlan0 these days > > :) > > Yep. A leftover from the days I used madwifi :-) I kind of like it though > given its similarity to eth0. > > > > So the difference looks to be how I boot: if I do a *cold* boot > > > directly into .32, wireless fails; if I *reboot* from .31 into .32, > > > wireless comes up correctly. Reboot from .32 to .32 fails too. > > > > Is that repeatable? > > Yes, 100%. Weird heh? That's what made me think it must be an ath5k > driver issue as it looks like a hardware initialization problem. Could > be PCI or PCMCIA though, although I don't see anything suspicious in > dmesg. > > > Rafael J. Wysocki has a patch floating around to fix PCMCIA resume, > > linked here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13092 Already in the Linus' tree. Thanks, Rafael -- 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
