Subject: Re: 2.6.38-rc7, iwlagn warning
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:39:15 +0100
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On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 19:10 +0000, Mathias Burén wrote:

> > Could you also grab /var/log/daemon.log or /var/log/NetworkManager.log,
> > whichever one exists?  And just to  make sure, when this problem
> > happens, there is only one wpa_supplicant running at the time, right?
> > Is something like wicd also running?
> >
> > The logs there look like something external is telling the supplicant to
> > disassociate, which could be NM or some other tool, but NM should not be
> > exhibiting this behavior if NM itself was used to start the adhoc
> > network.

> dameon.log http://www.2shared.com/file/9ntZ37Q9/daemon.html
> 
> I think the problem is Ubuntu-related, I can see error messages about
> dnsmasq (which NetworkManager uses for its DHCP purposes, right). I
> set the phone to static IPs, then suddenly the whole thing started
> working. No warning in dmesg...

Yeah -- if you configure /etc/dnsmasq.conf to not listen on all
interfaces, or you just disable it, then it should all work.

In any case, I'll look more into the warning, but even if I fix the
warning it won't really work any better for you until you manage to fix
the dnsmasq thing -- maybe file a bug against Ubuntu.

johannes