Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134]:30047 "EHLO mgw-mx09.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753053AbYG2VU5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:20:57 -0400 To: "Tomas Winkler" Cc: "Johannes Berg" , "Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski" , "Hin-Tak Leung" , "Larry Finger" , "Pavel Roskin" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Commit 741b4fbc44 (mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers) breaks rtl8187 References: <487f5f20.2lT57D3i0q99wrfY%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <48874F09.7060400@lwfinger.net> <3ace41890807281939y462c9b91n5fa952e167b6ff8c@mail.gmail.com> <200807290021.45400.herton@mandriva.com.br> <1217314430.15381.11.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240807290123n7673dbb9m7121c1e76fe57e94@mail.gmail.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:19:54 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240807290123n7673dbb9m7121c1e76fe57e94@mail.gmail.com> (ext Tomas Winkler's message of "Tue\, 29 Jul 2008 11\:23\:30 +0300") Message-ID: <874p68l75x.fsf@nokia.com> (sfid-20080729_232101_081283_DBFD451C) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Tomas Winkler writes: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Johannes Berg > wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:21 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: >> >>> [3] /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power on >> >> I don't think turning on power management (yes, this command is >> completely misnamed, it turns on power _management_ not the power, you >> may want "txpower auto") does anything on this chip, does it? > > iwconfig power on is not implemented by mac80211 yet. There was one > patch posted that implements it. John has already applied Samuel's patch to wireless-testing: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f87dd7e540d455f8e7f11478133b85edc969c67 > I wanted to expand it but wireless_tools 29 has a bug in parsing > this command. It is fixed only in 30.pre6 which is usually not in > distros. Could you be more specific, please? We have been using it for few years now. -- Kalle Valo