Re: Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ]

Re: Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ]

[Bob Copeland]

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.

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Re: [ath5k-devel] Fw: Cannot register at bugzilla (bugreport added) [ ath5k bugreport ]

[Holger Schurig]

> 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.

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