mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread Holger Schurig
I'm on wireless-2.6, branch everything, git commit 7446b6c0e3b18fd2c5f9c406bb20841e6193d058 When I insert a b43 based card, I don't get associated automatically. This happens: $ # Insert the card pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0 PCI: Enabling device :03:00.0 ( - 0002) ACPI: PCI

Instability with 4318 chip

2007-11-22 Thread Alexander Koeppe
Hello list, I'm using Gentoo Linux (2.6.23) on a Apple iBook and was very happy that my wireless chip is supported. After installation everything seems to be OK and working fine. But when the distance to my AP ascends to more than 4 meters, the connection seems to be down or unstable. Sometimes

Re: Instability with 4318 chip

2007-11-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Alexander Koeppe wrote: I'm using Gentoo Linux (2.6.23) on a Apple iBook and was very happy that my wireless chip is supported. After installation everything seems to be OK and working fine. But when the distance to my AP ascends to more than 4 meters, the connection

Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread Johannes Berg
First off, let me state that I don't think this is a regression. $ iwconfig eth1 essid BLAHMUMPF HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=2 [...] As you can see, it doesn't find anything that matches the current configuration. $ iwconfig eth1 key s:1 b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based

Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:05:52PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: Note that the same happens if I let Debian manage the card. An excerpt from my /etc/network/interfaces shows: That sucks, I guess debian's scripts need to be fixed. As it stands, setting the SSID is the closest thing we have

Re: Instability with 4318 chip

2007-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
Alexander Koeppe wrote: Hello list, I'm using Gentoo Linux (2.6.23) on a Apple iBook and was very happy that my wireless chip is supported. After installation everything seems to be OK and working fine. But when the distance to my AP ascends to more than 4 meters, the connection seems to

Re: [PATCH V2] b43: Changes to enable BCM4311 rev 02 with wireless core revision 13

2007-11-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 22:38:12 Larry Finger wrote: The BCM94311MCG rev 02 chip has an 802.11 core with revision 13 and has not been supported until now. The changes include the following: (1) Add the 802.11 rev 13 device to the ssb_device_id table to load b43. (2) Add PHY revision 9

Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 08:26 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: As it stands, setting the SSID is the closest thing we have to an associate now trigger. I would have to advise distros and users to always set it last in the wireless init, just before running dhclient or whatever. Maybe mac80211

Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 18:18 -0700, Ehud Gavron wrote: 2. dmesg repeats: wlan0: authentication with AP 00:50:bf:b1:da:64 timed out I think it's an unrelated hardware specific issue. mac80211 tried to associate but failed. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: timeout problems with certain APs and b43

2007-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
John H. wrote: wrt54gs with latest firmware. it seems exclusive to linux:O On Nov 21, 2007 4:18 PM, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 21:41:26 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux fedora 8 on certain APs, the

Re: [PATCH V2] b43: Changes to enable BCM4311 rev 02 with wireless core revision 13

2007-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: partially acked. Though, I'm not quite sure yet why you remove that address extension bits. The specs clearly say that they _are_ there. And it makes sense to use them, as two bytes of the address are used for the routing stuff. So the highest 2 bits of the address