On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:04 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Abhijeet Kolekar > <abhijeet.kolekar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Patch fixes the bug at > > http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2139 > > > > Currently we cannot set the channel using wext extension > > if we have already associated and disconnected. As > > cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq will not switch the channel if ssid is set. > > This fixes it by clearing the ssid. > > Following is the sequence which it tries to fix. > > modprobe iwlagn > > iwconfig wlan0 essid "" > > ifconfig wlan0 down > > iwconfig wlan0 chan X > > > > wext is marked as deprecate.If we use nl80211 we can easily play with > > setting the channel. > > > > Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@xxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Is this a stable fix as well? > Yes it can be a candidate for stable. I will resubmit. Thanks Abhijeet > Luis -- 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
