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From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:45:05 +1100
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Subject: Re: [ath5k] [bugreport] BIOS hang if wifi was connected before reboot
To: Daniel Gnoutcheff <daniel@gnoutcheff.name>
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Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Daniel Gnoutcheff
<daniel@gnoutcheff.name> wrote:
> Hello Julian, thanks for your response and advice.  (Sorry for my very
> slow reply.)
>
> On 01/24/2013 01:45 AM, Julian Calaby wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Daniel Gnoutcheff
>> <daniel@gnoutcheff.name> wrote:
>>> Up until recently, it seems that NetworkManager would always disconnect upon
>>> shutdown and thus avoided this bug, but this changed in Ubuntu 12.10.
> <snip>
>>
>> Have you raised a bug with Ubuntu's Network Manager maintainers about this?
>
> I have now.  Upon investigation, it appears that this is caused by a
> combination of (upstream) bugs in wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager.
> Fixing either of these bugs restores the intended behavior (and is an
> effective workaround for the BIOS bug).  The NetworkManager bug has
> already been fixed in upstream's git.  For the record, the relevant bug
> reports are:
>
> For NetworkManager:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/1124803
>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683932
> For wpa_supplicant:
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1124789
>   http://w1.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=474

Good work, hopefully those fixes get pushed out soon.

Thanks,

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Julian Calaby

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