From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chaning mode only when interface down?
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:14:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186046044.24230.11.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B18B77.5020802@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:44 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> I noticed that I have to do ifdown wlan0 before I can change the mode
> with iwconfig.
> When I do it while the interface is up I get a error that the device is
> busy.
It is busy.
> It seems to happen with ad-hoc, master and back from them to managed.
> Is this a bug in the iwlwifi driver or in mac80211 ?
Neither, it is expected behaviour. Blame it on Jean that wireless
extensions are ill-defined and don't mandate this.
> Because of this NM can't create ad-hoc networks because it does it while
> the device is up.
> Any ideas?
Fix NM?
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 7:44 chaning mode only when interface down? dragoran
2007-08-02 9:14 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-08-02 9:16 ` dragoran
2007-08-02 12:17 ` [ipw3945-devel] " Winkler, Tomas
2007-08-02 12:34 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 12:41 ` Winkler, Tomas
2007-08-02 12:46 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 13:11 ` Tomas Winkler
2007-08-02 12:48 ` dragoran
2007-08-02 12:53 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <f6ca9fed0708020643p53ceedcav76b14814b1b1cabd@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-02 15:52 ` Derek Atkins
2007-08-03 9:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 14:33 ` Derek Atkins
2007-08-03 14:50 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 14:53 ` John W. Linville
2007-08-03 15:10 ` Derek Atkins
2007-08-02 18:51 ` Dan Williams
2007-08-03 9:42 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 11:20 ` Dan Williams
2007-08-30 22:24 ` blocking in dev->open (was: [ipw3945-devel] chaning mode only when interface down?) Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 9:18 ` chaning mode only when interface down? Andy Green
2007-08-02 9:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-02 18:47 ` Dan Williams
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