Re: [BUG] Current head of wireless testing unusable

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Maxim,

> > > > I probably should work more to did these bugs out myself, but anyway I
> > > > want to let you know what I currently see.
> > > > 
> > > > First system oopses just after NM starts up, happens always, and after
> > > > planting few test points bug happens somewhere in following lines. 
> > > 
> > > We are discussing a bug in the scan state machine in another thread,
> > > which could have nasty consequences in not caught.  And I don't quite
> > > understand why my system was catching it immediately, maybe because I'm
> > > using gcc 4.4, which has array bounds checking.
> > Yea, there are two patches with same title for this, I applied the
> > newer.
> > 
> > Currently thanks to Johannes Berg, the patch
> > [PATCH] nl80211: add missing parameter clearing
> > Fixes this nasty oops, now wireless more or less works, but plenty of
> > problems still, first it oopses on reconnect as inilialized from
> > wpa_supplicant, second iwconfig misses most of its settings, and
> > probably thus NM think signal level is zero. If I switch to good old
> > wext in wpa_supplicant, it works just fine and none of above problems
> > present (I recheck this again to be sure)
> Except very frequent reconnects, 
> "[  919.250097] No probe response from AP 00:1b:9e:d8:77:02 after 200ms, disconnecting."

I have the same issue with my Intel 5350 card and if the signal strength
of the AP gets a little bit weaker.

Regards

Marcel