Subject: Re: iwlwifi connection problems
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:56 +0200
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On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 20:53 -0700, Alex Romosan wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 08:42 -0700, Alex Romosan wrote:
> >
> >> so i think i finally managed to track this down. doing a git bisect i
> >> get:
> >> 
> >> 3474ad635db371b0d8d0ee40086f15d223d5b6a4 is the first bad commit
> >> commit 3474ad635db371b0d8d0ee40086f15d223d5b6a4
> >> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> >> Date:   Thu Apr 29 04:43:05 2010 -0700
> >> 
> >>     iwlwifi: apply filter flags directly
> >
> >> ...
> >
> > Thanks. I'll take a closer look tomorrow, am about to leave for today.
> 
> so i looked a little bit more at what happened. the only difference
> between the non working and the working version is a call to
> iwlcore_commit_rxon(priv) on line 1327 of iwl-core.c (the version in
> 2.6.35). if i comment that line out then i can connect to the access
> point without problems. hope this helps.

Yes, thank you, but it's very strange. But it's probably ok, let's
remove the call then, it wasn't there before. Want to post a patch
yourself?

johannes