Return-path: Received: from mk-filter-3-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.100.54]:59310 "EHLO mk-filter-3-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752463AbZIYIG7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:06:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:06:53 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins To: Johannes Berg cc: "John W. Linville" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.31-git wireless broken In-Reply-To: <1253856038.3868.500.camel@johannes.local> Message-ID: References: <1253813740.3868.324.camel@johannes.local> <1253816614.3868.406.camel@johannes.local> <1253856038.3868.500.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Very odd. Haven't really looked at the config, but I see the phy0: idle > message that indicates you have debug on. However, it's like nothing > ever tells the kernel to connect to a network. > > Are you running wpa_supplicant? Should be, but you're right, for whatever reason it is not running with these recent kernels. I expect that correlates with iwconfig showing me ESSID:off/any. I'm thinking that (unless you've a better idea) I should do another bisect for when that behaviour starts - hoping that whatever problem led me to your patch, got fixed up later on, but superseded by this different problem. The bootup messages on the Aspire One tell me: wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) wlan0 is controlled by ifplugd wlan0 waiting wlan0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) wlan0 ifplugd is running wlan0 no cable connected wlan0 DHCP4 client NOT running wlan0 And the bootup messages on the Fujitsu Siemens say: wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) wlan0 is controlled by ifplugd wlan0 wlan0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) wlan0 ifplugd is running wlan0 no cable connected wlan0 . . . is just beeing set up wlan0 In each case, "no cable connected". I wonder, have there been more yet more regdom reworks since 2.6.31? Would this be the stage at which regdom problems manifest? I'm not running whatever-it-is daemon for setting regdom, usually just patch static char *ieee80211_regdom = "EU"; into my kernels; but in the past have only needed that when the router decides to use channel 13 or something - currently it's on channel 1. Hugh