Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:15:30 -0300 | From | Rogério Brito <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.26-rc4] Problems with rt2x00 USB interface on powerpc |
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Hi, Ivo and John.
On Jun 11 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:36:05AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I don't know if you received my earlier message. > > > > On Jun 08 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > Correction here: I just went to the ia32 notebook again and, now, > > > running Ubuntu's hardy kernel (which is a patched 2.6.24 kernel, > > > AFAIK---yes, it is; just checked it) I could make the D-Link stick > > > work fine. > > > > The only problem that I had is that I had to reissue the command > > "iwconfig wlan0 ap any" or, otherwise, the connection with the AP > > would be dropped (I can get a log for you to peruse, if you wish).
Let me be a bit more detailed here: when I connected the D-Link stick on the ia32 notebook with Ubuntu's 2.6.24 kernel, if I *didn't* issue the command "iwconfig wlan0 ap any" *periodically* (say, with # while true; iwconfig wlan0 ap any; sleep 10; done ), then the connection would die: the dmesg logs would indicate that the AP lost connection with the stick.
By the way, I see this exactly same behaviour with the rt61pci driver on the same machine (with the only difference being that the interface name is ra0 instead of wlan0): I even put a cron job to issue the command every minute, so that my parents (which are using a PCMCIA card that uses the rt61pci) don't have to learn about the nasty things of networking.
Anyway, I would be happy to get the D-Link USB stick getting a lease from the AP as a first step. This way, I think that I could help you both much more than what I can now, and I would be a step closer into the direction of ditching MacOS X.
> What does "iwconfig wlan0" show _before_ doing the "iwconfig wlan0 ap any"?
Actually, it shows the output that I listed before in the mail that had the script "levanta.sh" attached (which was blocked by many people's e-mail servers): both interfaces up and configured with the same AP (but the ra0 one with the DHCP daemon disabled).
(In that message, I mentioned something along the lines: notice that the Signal Strength is reported to be higher on the ra0 interface than on the wlan0, despite both working on ia32).
Regards, Rogério Brito.
P.S.: Sorry for an e-mail not more detailed. I'm not with physical access to my parent's notebook. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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