Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:59698 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752033AbXCDXj7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:39:59 -0500 Subject: Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager) From: Johannes Berg To: Matt Mackall Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yi.zhu@intel.com, jketreno@linux.intel.com, linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <20070304220857.GH23311@waste.org> References: <20070304220857.GH23311@waste.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Bdf9yS6/Qs+ddGU6eaEw" Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:39:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1173051564.6131.13.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-Bdf9yS6/Qs+ddGU6eaEw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [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: >=20 > $ hg bisect bad > The first bad revision is: > changeset: 46985:f701b96bb2f7 > user: Greg Kroah-Hartman > date: Wed Feb 07 10:37:11 2007 -0800 > summary: Network: convert network devices to use struct device > instead of class_device >=20 > 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... johannes --=-Bdf9yS6/Qs+ddGU6eaEw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF61is/ETPhpq3jKURAuvvAKC1g4NYvVxDXEyrhIwv4uXtMx4+dwCcD/90 gjfwMbRL2vJ46swsF1N2/1E= =2Oqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Bdf9yS6/Qs+ddGU6eaEw--