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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Cc: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Brett Rudley" <brudley@broadcom.com>,
	"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>,
	"Arend Van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>,
	networkmanager-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:40:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313509211.2065.36.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E4A5641.4020604@broadcom.com>

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 13:36 +0200, Roland Vossen wrote:
> Hello Camaleón,
> 
> So the first problem that you encounter is that scan does not work. Lets 
> dive into that first.
> 
> I see in the log that you sent:
> 
> 'Aug 14 13:39:02 stt300 NetworkManager[1181]: 
> supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == 
> NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed'
> 
> I also see many 'wpa_supplicant[1204]: Failed to initiate AP scan' messages.
> 
> There are no 'Failed to initiate AP scan' messages before the 'assertion 
> failed' message. I do not know if the 2nd message is a byproduct of the 
> 1st result. Regardless, a failed assertion is serious. I cc'ed the 
> network manager mailing list.

Yeah, the scanning issues are almost certainly what's causing stuff to
fail; which obviously seems like a driver issue at this point.

Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-16 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-14 12:16 brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP Camaleón
2011-08-16 11:36 ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-16 15:40   ` Dan Williams [this message]
2011-08-17 10:39     ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-18  8:07       ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-19 14:32         ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-19 15:21           ` Camaleón
2011-08-21 21:43             ` Camaleón
2011-08-22 10:03               ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-22 11:27                 ` Camaleón
2011-08-22 12:57                   ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-22 13:28                     ` Camaleón
2011-08-22 13:55                       ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-22 14:27                         ` Camaleón
2011-08-23  8:41                           ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-23  8:59                             ` Camaleón
2011-08-23  9:27                               ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-23  9:53                                 ` Camaleón
2011-08-23 10:38                                   ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-23 10:53                                     ` Camaleón
2011-08-23 11:23                                       ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-23 14:06                                         ` Camaleón
2011-08-23 14:18                                           ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-23 14:48                                             ` Camaleón
2011-08-23 14:58                                               ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-23 15:27                                                 ` Camaleón
2011-08-23 17:37                                               ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-23 18:01                                                 ` Camaleón
2011-08-22 14:15                       ` Roland Vossen
2011-08-22 14:28                         ` Camaleón
2011-08-22 16:37                         ` Dan Williams
2011-08-19 20:47           ` Dan Williams
2011-08-22  6:52             ` Roland Vossen

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