On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 18:12 -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > | Yes, I know it may have worked in earlier kernels. And we should find > | out why that is, and hopefully fix the regression if any. But > | understand that airo has always been problematic and has never worked as > | well as other fullmac cards like orinoco. > | > | I booted up RHEL5 today, which uses a 2.6.18 kernel and of course does > | not have the patch-in-question. That behavior is: > | > | 1) stop NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant > | 2) insert airo card > | 3) iwlist scan returns many results > | 4) connect to WEP-enabled AP > | 5) iwlist scan returns *only* the connected ap > | 6) iwconfig eth1 essid any key off > | 7) iwlist scan returns no results > | > | remember, that's without any of the patches we're talking about, using a > | kernel from 2007. Which is about the same behavior you get, correct? > > I don't get quite this behavior, although I'm not doing exactly these > steps; instead, I do: > - boot machine > - use 'iwlist scan' and see multiple APs > - use NetworkManager to connect to our WEP-enabled AP > - 'iwlist scan' returns only the single AP > - turn things off with: > iwconfig eth1 essid ANY key off > - 'iwconfig eth1' and NetworkManager both show no connected AP > - 'iwlist scan' returns only the ex-connected AP These are the results you get on the older kernel without the commit we're all talking about here? > (I do not know the right commands to connect to our WEP-enabled AP and > verify that everything is working right without using NetworkManager, > so I used it for the connection phase.) iwconfig ethX essid 'foobar' key <your hex wep key> Then run 'iwconfig ethX' over and over until you see a valid AP BSSID listed in the result, and then you can run 'dhclient -1 -v -d ethX' to try and DHCP. Also, what firmware version do you have? Dan -- 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
