From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752700AbYFLEPq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:15:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750802AbYFLEPg (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:15:36 -0400 Received: from smtps.uol.com.br ([200.221.4.131]:42986 "EHLO smtp.uol.com.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750794AbYFLEPf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:15:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:15:30 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Ivo van Doorn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rbrito@ime.usp.br Subject: Re: [2.6.26-rc4] Problems with rt2x00 USB interface on powerpc Message-ID: <20080612041530.GA19980@ime.usp.br> References: <20080601193000.GA3056@ime.usp.br> <200806081242.54896.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <20080608213513.GA30499@ime.usp.br> <200806090002.17938.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <20080609001540.GA19072@ime.usp.br> <20080611093605.GA13557@ime.usp.br> <20080611134323.GA7149@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080611134323.GA7149@tuxdriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SIG5: b3ef07dee8442ec3539d7bff0ab3d83f Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Ivo and John. On Jun 11 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:36:05AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I don't know if you received my earlier message. > > > > On Jun 08 2008, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > Correction here: I just went to the ia32 notebook again and, now, > > > running Ubuntu's hardy kernel (which is a patched 2.6.24 kernel, > > > AFAIK---yes, it is; just checked it) I could make the D-Link stick > > > work fine. > > > > The only problem that I had is that I had to reissue the command > > "iwconfig wlan0 ap any" or, otherwise, the connection with the AP > > would be dropped (I can get a log for you to peruse, if you wish). Let me be a bit more detailed here: when I connected the D-Link stick on the ia32 notebook with Ubuntu's 2.6.24 kernel, if I *didn't* issue the command "iwconfig wlan0 ap any" *periodically* (say, with # while true; iwconfig wlan0 ap any; sleep 10; done ), then the connection would die: the dmesg logs would indicate that the AP lost connection with the stick. By the way, I see this exactly same behaviour with the rt61pci driver on the same machine (with the only difference being that the interface name is ra0 instead of wlan0): I even put a cron job to issue the command every minute, so that my parents (which are using a PCMCIA card that uses the rt61pci) don't have to learn about the nasty things of networking. Anyway, I would be happy to get the D-Link USB stick getting a lease from the AP as a first step. This way, I think that I could help you both much more than what I can now, and I would be a step closer into the direction of ditching MacOS X. > What does "iwconfig wlan0" show _before_ doing the "iwconfig wlan0 ap any"? Actually, it shows the output that I listed before in the mail that had the script "levanta.sh" attached (which was blocked by many people's e-mail servers): both interfaces up and configured with the same AP (but the ra0 one with the DHCP daemon disabled). (In that message, I mentioned something along the lines: notice that the Signal Strength is reported to be higher on the ra0 interface than on the wlan0, despite both working on ia32). Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Sorry for an e-mail not more detailed. I'm not with physical access to my parent's notebook. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org