Hi folks -
I have pretty decent functionality on the 3945abg laptop with the Fedora
development kernel version of iwlwifi and WPA via wpa_supplicant.
Connections can stay up over a couple of days or more when I am staying
close to the AP.
However if I perform this action:
echo -n mon0 > /sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/add_iface
I immediately lose association and cannot reacquire it until I remove
the iwl3945 module and insert again. I don't have to do anything with
the new interface, just create it. I tried setting the channel and mode
of it, but that didn't help with reacquiring an association.
In contrast I can bring up other virtual interfaces okay on, eg, zd1211
without losing an existing association to the same WPA network.
-Andy
ian wrote:
> I don't appear to have the same problem with:
> -latest version of iwlwifi (0.0.35)
> - gentoo-sources-2.6.20 kernel (patched with a relatively old mac80211
> package)
>
> I believe fedora has 0.0.24 of iwlwifi embedded?
I don't know, this was yesterday's latest development kernel
2.6.22-0.5.rc7.git2.fc8 FWIW.
> So the problem might have been fixed already.
You're right Ian, I tested current wireless-dev git iwl3945 on another
laptop and it works correctly, I can even put the secondary interface
into Monitor mode and see stuff flying around and still ping things frmo
the default associated interface. Great!
-Andy
I don't appear to have the same problem with:
-latest version of iwlwifi (0.0.35)
- gentoo-sources-2.6.20 kernel (patched with a relatively old mac80211 package)
I believe fedora has 0.0.24 of iwlwifi embedded?
So the problem might have been fixed already.
Writing this email, after executing your command, when associated on a wpa2
network.
Ian.
Andy Green wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> I have pretty decent functionality on the 3945abg laptop with the Fedora
> development kernel version of iwlwifi and WPA via wpa_supplicant.
> Connections can stay up over a couple of days or more when I am staying
> close to the AP.
>
> However if I perform this action:
>
> echo -n mon0 > /sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/add_iface
>
> I immediately lose association and cannot reacquire it until I remove
> the iwl3945 module and insert again. I don't have to do anything with
> the new interface, just create it. I tried setting the channel and mode
> of it, but that didn't help with reacquiring an association.
>
> In contrast I can bring up other virtual interfaces okay on, eg, zd1211
> without losing an existing association to the same WPA network.
>
> -Andy
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