Re: prism54 regression in current -git

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 06:42 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> The patch "prism54: set carrier flags correctly" makes my
>> prism54 device in AP mode come up without a carrier, which
>> in causes IPv6 to not add a link-local address, which in
>> turn causes radvd (configured to announce routes on that
>> device) to refuse to start, breaking IPv6 for the entire
>> network.
>>
>> I didn't check whether a carrier is detected once a client
>> associates, but in any case it seems to me that a device
>> in AP mode should always indicate a carrier.
> 
> Should always indicate a carrier _when it's configured and up_.  If you
> just go 'iwconfig eth1 mode master' it shouldn't, but if you do:
> 
> ifconfig eth1 up
> iwconfig eth1 mode master essid foobar
> 
> then it should.

Yes, it was up and running of course. No carrier though.