Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:36:01 -0400
From: Vincent C Jones <v.jones@networkingunlimited.com>
Subject: Re: iwl4965 - wpa_supplicant can't see 5Ghz frequencies -	2.6.26-rc1
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On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 03:12 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Vincent C Jones
> <v.jones@networkingunlimited.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 00:23 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Vincent C Jones
> >> <v.jones@networkingunlimited.com> wrote:
> >> > The channel/frequency reporting by iwlwifi is incompatible with
> >> >  wpa_supplicant for 5GHz (802.11A) channels. Version numbers and iwlist
> >> >  versus wpa_supplicant scan results are below. Association still works if
> >> >  the correct channel is specified using iwconfig, but that is
> >> >  incompatible with roaming.
> >>
> >> Fixed by the patch ' iwlwifi: Fix frequency in rx_status fill'
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Tomas
> >
> > This patch did not apply cleanly to plain 2.6.26-rc1: off by -4 lines in
> > iwl-3945.c and by 1078 lines in iwl-4965.c. More important, it did not
> > fix the problem of wpa_supplicant thinking the 802.11A access points are
> > on channel 0. Same results with 2.6.26-rc1-git7, with & without patch.
> > Any idea when this patch (and the patches it appears to depend on) will
> > make it into the 2.6.26 release?
> >
> 
> This patch is against wireless-testing.git, it's just too lines and
> doesn't really have logical dependencies on other patches so I didn't
> create a separate patch for 2.6.26...It looks maybe I should.
> Can you  try to eproduce your problem on wireless-testing kernel with
> this patch?
> Also some logs will be useful
> 
> Thanks
> Tomas

Am I looking at the right patch ? The one I found searching for
'iwlwifi: Fix frequency in rx_status fill' was dated yesterday and
changes one line in iwl-3945.c and a similar line in iwl-4965.c. See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/14519

Git clone of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
is in progress. Will try to compile and test tomorrow. What kinds of
logs do you have in mind?


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