* Re: Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ] [not found] <20090925191524.7b2b228c@schatten> @ 2009-09-26 12:46 ` Bob Copeland 2009-09-28 7:42 ` [ath5k-devel] " Holger Schurig 1 sibling, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Bob Copeland @ 2009-09-26 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: hans.ullrich Cc: ath5k-devel, linux-wireless, netdev, Luis R. Rodriguez, Nick Kossifidis, Jiri Slaby, John W. Linville On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:15:24PM +0200, Florian Mickler wrote: > cc's added > > could you also: > - tell the version of the broken kernel, > - the last working kernel version, > - test if it works with current kernel-snapshot from > http://www.kernel.org/ Yes, please. > kernel-module "ath5k" gets no IP when using dhcp > > Description: It is not possible, to get an IP-address by using dhcp > with the kernel-module ath5k. It is possible, to give a fixed IP to > that module. It works here - I would guess the packets are getting dropped. Do you have anything in 'dmesg' while trying to associate? > There are already other reports of this problem in discussion forums. > It seems, the old madwifi-driver works better with dhcp - so people say. Can you point to such a discussion? It's best to discuss on ath5k-devel or linux-wireless ML so we will know about it. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [ath5k-devel] Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ] [not found] <20090925191524.7b2b228c@schatten> 2009-09-26 12:46 ` Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ] Bob Copeland @ 2009-09-28 7:42 ` Holger Schurig 1 sibling, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Holger Schurig @ 2009-09-28 7:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ath5k-devel Cc: Florian Mickler, Hans-J. Ullrich, Jiri Slaby, linux-wireless, John W. Linville, netdev > There are already other reports of this problem in discussion forums. > It seems, the old madwifi-driver works better with dhcp - so people say. I cannot second that. For me, ath5k works perfectly with DHCP, with WEXT ("iwconfig") and NL80211 ("iw") and with wpa_supplicant. DHCP was NEVER an issue. -- http://www.holgerschurig.de ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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