On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 06:27:19PM +0100, Mattieu Baptiste wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 06:49:33AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: >> >> Jonathan Gray wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:16:08AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> >> > > >> >> > > If the firmare image is not present at boot, no interface is created. >> >> > > After installing the firmware with fw_update (which succeeds because >> >> > > it looks for "iwm" in dmesg not ifconfig) there is no way to recover >> >> > > the interface without a reboot because 'ifconfig iwm0' doesn't work. >> >> >> >> > If the mac address and the supported 802.11 modes depend on >> >> > having the firmware loaded, is it really worth adding a >> >> > interface that allows invalid parameters to be set? >> >> >> >> Maybe? See above. If I don't have firmware when I boot, but install >> >> firmware >> >> later, the interface should still be useable. Putting the interface into a >> >> "must reboot" state should be considered a bug. >> >> >> > >> > I'd be surprised if the 802.11 reattach doesn't cause problems... >> > >> > Anyway here is the minimal version >> >> Hi, >> Unfortunately, neither of the two patchs works for me. >> Errors are the same. >> Is there something I can do to help debugging this? > > Updated diff that makes 11a scanning conditional.
Great, it's working fine now. I'm sending this mail with the iwm(4) interface. Thanks!
