From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Jimham@porcine.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Athros wireless stopped working
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:13:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1268187196.3410.14.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268102255.10290.24.camel@localhost>
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 18:37 -0800, Jim Ham wrote:
> What I have discovered is that if the ESSID is not active, iwconfig sets
> it correctly and it sticks. If the ESSID is one that is locally present,
> iwconfig seems to set it, but it almost immediately reverts to garbage.
Either you have a memory corruption bug in your kernel, or you have some
buggy userspace tool (it could be a misbehaving NetworkManager or wicd)
that changes ESSID on the interface as soon as the driver reports
association. I haven't seen any similar reports.
> Kernel driver in use: ath5k
ath5k is not an example of code quality, but I don't remember any memory
corruption bugs in it fixed since 2.6.32.
I suggest following steps:
1) Check for updates for your distribution, install updates, recheck.
2) Boot to the single user mode, make sure that wpa_supplicant and wicd
are not running (kill them otherwise) and try setting up the connection
manually.
3) Install the latest compat-wireless, recheck.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 2:37 Athros wireless stopped working Jim Ham
2010-03-10 2:13 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2010-03-10 15:58 ` Jim Ham
2010-03-10 7:48 ` Gábor Stefanik
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2010-03-03 0:57 Jim Ham
2010-03-03 9:38 ` Holger Schurig
2010-03-03 23:32 ` Bob Copeland
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