From: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Reply-To: maciej.rutecki@gmail.com
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] [IWL3945] Broadcast is broken?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:34:06 +0200
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, reinette.chatre@intel.com,
	wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com, ilw@linux.intel.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Berg Johannes <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	iwlwifi maling list <ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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On poniedziałek, 14 czerwca 2010 o 19:55:38 Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 19:24 +0200, Maciej Rutecki wrote:
> > Hardware:
> > 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> > [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
> > 
> > Last known good kernel: 2.6.34
> > 
> > Failing kernels: since 2.6.35-rc1 to 2.6.35-rc3
> > 
> > Symptoms:
> > During connect do wireless network authentication seems be OK, but I
> > cannot get IP from dhcp serwer. I do:
> > echo 0x43fff > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/debug_level
> > 
> > Syslog is here:
> > http://unixy.pl/maciek/download/kernel/2.6.35-rc3/gumis/syslog-before.txt
> > 
> > From syslog I guess the problem is that it doesn't receive broadcast
> > frames (but I'm not sure), so I try:
> > sudo ifconfig wlan0 promisc
> > 
> > Syslog:
> > http://unixy.pl/maciek/download/kernel/2.6.35-rc3/gumis/syslog-after.txt
> > 
> > And then I can get IP address.
> > 
> > Any advice?
> 
> Very likely commit 3474ad635db371b0d8d0ee40086f15d223d5b6a4,
> because I have same problem.
> 
> Try to revert it.

Thanks for information; revert this commit solves problem.

> 
> Best regards,
> Maxim Levitsky

Regards
-- 
Maciej Rutecki
http://www.maciek.unixy.pl