On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:54:07AM +0000, Hubert Tonneau wrote: > Hi, > > If I use a 32 bits kernel, then I can connect to any Wifi box, > but if I use a 64 bits kernel with 32 bits executables, > it will connect on some Wifi boxes (french Freebox), but fail to connect to others (french Livebox). > > The wifi driver used is iwl3945. > When connection fails, WPA supplicant will report successfull association, > but udhcpc will fail to get a lease. > It does not seem to be related to a peticular kernel release: I tested with 2.6.36.4, > but get the same problem with 2.6.32.28 64 bits. > > Regards, > Hubert Tonneau We have had a number of 32/64 compatibility problems with the wireless extensions API in the past. I wonder if this is another one? Does your version of wpa_supplicant support the "-Dnl80211" option (instead of "-Dwext")? It might be worth trying that to see if it works better? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
