linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: B43 not seeing MadWifi AP
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:59:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206095908.GU25912@donkey.ma.tech.ascom.ch> (raw)

Hi Folks

I have a number of Linux laptops running kernel 2.6.23.9, and
compat-wireless-2.6 with what git-describe says is
v2.6.24-rc7-716-g62ec51e and i am using the b43 driver with a BCM4312
device.

I also have some laptop with Atheros PCCard devices and the Madwifi
driver from SVN, version r3318.

The Madwifi device is running as an AP. The problem i have is that the
b43 does not see it. iwlist wlan0 scan does not see this madwifi
AP. It does see other APs, but not my madwifi driver. Other madwifi
devices see the AP. Also an ipw2200 device sees the AP. So i know the
AP is running, sending beacons, etc. It just seems that the b43 does
not like it. 

iwlist ath0 scan lists the "missing" AP as:

   Cell 04 - Address: 06:03:7F:03:42:0B
             ESSID:"TOWN-SSID"
             Mode:Master
             Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7)
             Quality=49/70  Signal level=-46 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
             Encryption key:off
             Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                       11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                       48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
             Extra:bcn_int=100
             Extra:wme_ie=dd180050f2020101830002a4400027a4000042435e0062322f00
             Extra:ath_ie=dd0900037f01010034ff7f

Is the b43 picky about Extra things in the beacon? 

At the beginning of ieee80211_rx_bss_info() there is some commented
out printk for all received beacons and probe responses. I enabled
this and don't see anything for the missing device. So it looks like
the problem is lower down the stack. However i don't see any obvious
place were it would be discarding beacons.

Anybody got any ideas?

        Thanks
                Andrew

             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06  9:59 Andrew Lunn [this message]
2008-02-06 18:17 ` B43 not seeing MadWifi AP Pavel Roskin
2008-02-06 18:53   ` Andrew Lunn
2008-02-08  4:35     ` Pavel Roskin

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20080206095908.GU25912@donkey.ma.tech.ascom.ch \
    --to=andrew.lunn@ascom.ch \
    --cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).