Re: Bisected 3.9 regression for iwl4965 connection problem to 1672c0e3

[Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>]

On Mon, 06 May 2013 17:24:19 +0200 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 09:21 -0600, Jake Edge wrote:
> 
> > > Thanks for the report. Is the AP on a passive channel by any
> > > chance (5 GHz, or channels 12/13)?
> > 
> > No, from what I can see on my router, it is using channel 36 (5.180
> > GHz) for the SSID in question
> 
> So yes, that is a passive channel for the 4965 device :-)

oops, sorry :)  (obviously I don't know what a passive channel is :)

> > but Stanislaw seems to have pinpointed the issue.
> 
> Yeah that was a workaround, but I'm not sure we'd really want to do
> that. I'd rather see what really caused this issue. I have a feeling
> it's the passive-no-RX workaround, or lack thereof maybe? I need to
> look a bit closer.

Ok, I'm happy to test things out at this end ... change channels on the
router, build new kernels, etc.

thanks,

jake

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