Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager) | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:39:24 +0100 |
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[adding linux-wireless to CC]
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly > related problems:
I don't think they are related actually.
> a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200
This is due to the recent sysfs restructuring I think. IIRC the fix is to upgrade hal to a current git version.
> b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports:
That one's strange.
> A second attempt to enable WEP via iwconfig succeeds and network > connectivity is normal. However, NetworkManager still ignores the > device at this point.
I'd think it's a ipw bug but I have no idea if that was even touched during this time.
> Bisect with Mercurial points to this patch: > > $ hg bisect bad > The first bad revision is: > changeset: 46985:f701b96bb2f7 > user: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > date: Wed Feb 07 10:37:11 2007 -0800 > summary: Network: convert network devices to use struct device > instead of class_device > > which corresponds to 43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278 in git.
Yup, sysfs breakage/hal stuff. Can you try with a recent hal? And maybe try to bisect the iwconfig stop thing if you've got enough time...
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