From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3817 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752126AbXKVN1U (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:27:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:26:35 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: Holger Schurig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically Message-ID: <20071122132635.GA3372@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20071122_132723_291781_42416AF0) References: <200711220912.10452.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> <1195736752.6323.97.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1195736752.6323.97.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:05:52PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Note that the same happens if I let Debian manage the card. An excerpt > > from my /etc/network/interfaces shows: > > That sucks, I guess debian's scripts need to be fixed. As it stands, setting the SSID is the closest thing we have to an "associate now" trigger. I would have to advise distros and users to always set it last in the wireless init, just before running dhclient or whatever. John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com