Re: iwlwifi connection problems

[Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>]

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 20:53 -0700, Alex Romosan wrote:
>> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 08:42 -0700, Alex Romosan wrote:
>> >
>> >> so i think i finally managed to track this down. doing a git bisect i
>> >> get:
>> >> 
>> >> 3474ad635db371b0d8d0ee40086f15d223d5b6a4 is the first bad commit
>> >> commit 3474ad635db371b0d8d0ee40086f15d223d5b6a4
>> >> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>> >> Date:   Thu Apr 29 04:43:05 2010 -0700
>> >> 
>> >>     iwlwifi: apply filter flags directly
>> >
>> >> ...
>> >
>> > Thanks. I'll take a closer look tomorrow, am about to leave for today.
>> 
>> so i looked a little bit more at what happened. the only difference
>> between the non working and the working version is a call to
>> iwlcore_commit_rxon(priv) on line 1327 of iwl-core.c (the version in
>> 2.6.35). if i comment that line out then i can connect to the access
>> point without problems. hope this helps.
>
> Yes, thank you, but it's very strange. But it's probably ok, let's
> remove the call then, it wasn't there before. Want to post a patch
> yourself?

that's ok, i don't really know what's going on, i only noticed the
difference between the two versions. you post the patch.

--alex--

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