From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: fix channel setting for wext
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:04:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e72e891001131004s1eab8bf2jdf94bdd4b2d59281@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263405850-10180-1-git-send-email-abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Abhijeet Kolekar
<abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com> wrote:
> Patch fixes the bug at
> http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2139
>
> Currently we cannot set the channel using wext extension
> if we have already associated and disconnected. As
> cfg80211_mgd_wext_siwfreq will not switch the channel if ssid is set.
> This fixes it by clearing the ssid.
> Following is the sequence which it tries to fix.
> modprobe iwlagn
> iwconfig wlan0 essid ""
> ifconfig wlan0 down
> iwconfig wlan0 chan X
>
> wext is marked as deprecate.If we use nl80211 we can easily play with
> setting the channel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Is this a stable fix as well?
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-13 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 18:04 [PATCH v2] cfg80211: fix channel setting for wext Abhijeet Kolekar
2010-01-13 18:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2010-01-13 18:47 ` Abhijeet Kolekar
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