Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:26 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Sebastian Smolorz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > the at76c50x-usb driver fails to authenticate with an AP. > > We need more information on how it fails. The problem is that the following if-statement is never true: http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.34/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c#L1986 What else information do you need? dmesg output, debugfs trace? > > > > The last working > > > major kernel version was 2.6.30. I investigated the problem and found > > > out that the driver needs to send a join command (CMD_JOIN) prior to > > > the actual authentication process. For the join command, the driver > > > needs to know the bssid of the AP. The problem is now that the > > > mac80211 layer does not inform the driver about the bssid prior to > > > the authentication. So we have a chicken-and-egg dilemma. -- Sebastian -- 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
