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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:38:01 +0200
From: "Roland Vossen" <rvossen@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP
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Hi Camaleón,

 > 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.

that sounds like a kernel thread never exiting the brcmsmac driver. 
Which means we have to add debug messages (printk) to the driver or hook 
up a debugger.

Would you be able/willing to make debug related changes to our driver 
and build it ? I can tell you what changes to make.

Thanks, Roland.