Re: brcmsmac driver only works when sitting next to the AP

["Roland Vossen" <rvossen@broadcom.com>]

> Hello Dan,
>
> can you reply ?

So much for responsiveness.

Camaleon, would you be able to provide additional logs as requested in 
one of my previous mails ?

Thanks, Roland.

>
> Thanks, Roland.
>
> On 08/17/2011 12:39 PM, Roland Vossen wrote:
>>>> 'Aug 14 13:39:02 stt300 NetworkManager[1181]:
>>>> supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state ==
>>>> NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed'
>>>>
>>>> I also see many 'wpa_supplicant[1204]: Failed to initiate AP scan' messages.
>>>>
>>>> There are no 'Failed to initiate AP scan' messages before the 'assertion
>>>> failed' message. I do not know if the 2nd message is a byproduct of the
>>>> 1st result. Regardless, a failed assertion is serious. I cc'ed the
>>>> network manager mailing list.
>>
>>> Yeah, the scanning issues are almost certainly what's causing stuff to
>>> fail; which obviously seems like a driver issue at this point.
>>
>> Well, the 1st sign that something goes wrong is the assert message in
>> NetworkManager. After that, the scans are the next things that go wrong.
>> So I don't understand why you think that this is a driver problem, I
>> would rather say this is a Network manager problem. Could you explain ?
>>
>> Thanks, Roland.
>