From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:43202 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752592AbYGaGmD (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:42:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Issue: iwlist scanning sees the network; dhclient can't connect From: Johannes Berg To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Michael Buesch , "Thiago F. Tavares" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1217447463.25919.10.camel@dv> (sfid-20080730_215124_120619_94F43935) References: <1127857B97C63B4285A9B02BEF67AEE601627648@afrodite.halogica.com.br> <1217446602.25919.5.camel@dv> <200807302141.07738.mb@bu3sch.de> <1217447463.25919.10.camel@dv> (sfid-20080730_215124_120619_94F43935) Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:41:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1217493665.3392.0.camel@Friederike-PC.hoffi> (sfid-20080731_084209_611359_C5D21713) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 15:51 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:41 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > dhclient works fine for me. Although it's true that it sometimes > > messes with up/down state. But you _can_ use it, if you take some care. > > True. But b43 has the lowest dhclient survival rate of all drivers I > know. That's an empirical observation, of course. I think debian patches out the down/up behaviour. We may be seeing that. johannes