From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cedric Sodhi Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:21:34 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ar9271 SIOCSIFFLAGS error and authentication timeout In-Reply-To: <1298556495.25101.66.camel@jm-desktop> References: <19814.2496.216607.495827@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20110224074209.11758.qmail@stuge.se> <20110224090010.GB19782@fly> <20110224091823.32641.qmail@stuge.se> <20110224095848.GD24543@fly> <1298545686.25101.36.camel@jm-desktop> <20110224112107.GA11720@fly> <1298546937.25101.54.camel@jm-desktop> <20110224115202.664.qmail@stuge.se> <1298556495.25101.66.camel@jm-desktop> Message-ID: <20110224162134.GA21464@fly> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org I'm not sure whether I understand every bit of your reply. For practical reasons, I would like to skip directly to... On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:08:15PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 03:52 -0800, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Quick grep rfkill -r /lib/rc* /etc/init.d comes up empty. > > It is done with iwconfig. iwconfig_post_stop and failure in > iwconfig_pre_start results in "iwconfig wlan# txpower off" getting > executed. This results in soft blocking the interface. > > iwconfig_pre_starts removes the soft block with iwconfig_defaults that > runs "iwconfig wlan# txpower auto", but this happens only after > wpa_supplicant has been started (I would do that in different order..) > and as such, depends on wpa_supplicant being able to handle a dynamic > rfkill blocking change. > > Anyway, this is getting way off-topic for this mailing list. Like I > mentioned before, if this soft blocking causes issues, the question > should be directed to Gentoo maintainers. Though, it should be noted > that this works fine on my laptop with Gentoo as long as the network > settings are correct to avoid hitting the soft block on failure and as > long as wpa_supplicant is recent enough to handle the rfkill events > properly. So you are implying that it's actually an issue of my network settings and/or wpa_supplicant version? Is this the quintessence? If so, what networksettings do I require and what version of wpa_supplicant do you use? Thanks, it sounded like it's already solved > In addition, it should be noted that any manual operation > after "net.wlan# stop" will need to take care of unblocking the soft > block before actually trying to use the radio. > > - Jouni There, I lost you again. After the stop, there is no soft lock in place, why are you saying this then?