Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753248AbZCSOQD (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:16:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753148AbZCSOPs (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:15:48 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:43892 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752311AbZCSOPr (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:15:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:13:11 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: Jeff Chua , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Kernel Testers List , Network Development Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28 Message-ID: <20090319141311.GA3587@tuxdriver.com> References: <1237140665.24621.2.camel@johannes.local> <1237143683.24621.7.camel@johannes.local> <20090315202603.GA9077@elte.hu> <1237317742.31814.28.camel@johannes.local> <1237455534.5100.56.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1237455534.5100.56.camel@johannes.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1069 Lines: 29 On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:38:54AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:49 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > > > Ignore the above loop thing. The cause seems to be this one instead. > > > > > > # this needs patch to work ... > > iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > iwconfig wlan0 essid xxx > > iwconfig wlan0 key restricted xxx > > iwconfig wlan0 ap auto channel auto > > If you swap the key and essid lines, it will probably always work. But > I've yet to analyse your data to see why it doesn't in the other case. That is what I was going to suggest. I go so far as to say that you should set everything else before doing the "iwconfig wlan0 essid xxx" bit. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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/