Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:65481 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750982Ab1HWJxw (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:53:52 -0400 Received: by wyg24 with SMTP id 24so4063188wyg.19 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:53:48 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?Q2FtYWxlw7Nu?= To: Roland Vossen Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Brett Rudley , Henry Ptasinski , Arend Van Spriel , "networkmanager-list@gnome.org" Subject: Re: brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP Message-ID: <20110823095348.GA5383@stt008.linux.site> (sfid-20110823_115356_114340_376906C9) References: <4E52297D.9090301@broadcom.com> <20110822112737.GA5936@stt008.linux.site> <4E525235.7060501@broadcom.com> <4E525FC7.4070802@broadcom.com> <4E5367AA.8040406@broadcom.com> <4E53728B.3030803@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <4E53728B.3030803@broadcom.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: El 2011-08-23 a las 11:27 +0200, Roland Vossen escribió: > Hello Camaleón, > > I did not see anything unusual in the provided 'ps -A' output. > > I want to find out what the result of a scan is, specifically the RSSI. > In that way I can judge if this is a signal reception problem. > > Can you do the following: > > - unload brcmsmac driver (or simply don't load it) > - 'sudo service network-manager stop' > .. this gets network-manager out of the way, perhaps it is related to > the 'resource/device busy' message > - load driver > - 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up' > - 'sudo iw wlan0 scan' Done. It gets stuck when issuing "iw wlan0 scan". I mean, I get no output, just a blinking cursor as is the task it is being running but returns nothing and logs (dmesg and /var/log/syslog) show nothing relevant. Greetings, -- Camaleón