Re: wireless-testing regression: iwl3945 scan fails

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>]

reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> writes:

> Hi Kalle,

Hi Reinette,

>> I have looked at this now a bit and I don't think this is an iwl3945
>> problem. Scanning seems to stall in some situations and iwl3945 doesn't
>> even receive the scan command. 
>
> The patches we sent recently did undergo testing under various scenarios
> using wpa_supplicant. We have not done this testing after the
> 2.6.31-rc3-wl merge (yesterday) though. I just did a quick test on my
> 3945 using iwconfig to associate and it was able to do so on A and G
> bands. Looks like I need to do some wpa_supplicant testing.

This odd problem might happen only in my setup.

>> Also I have been able to reproduce the problem once with iw. For some
>> strange reason I have had to reboot my laptop to reproduce this,
>> unloading all wireless related modules (expect rfkill which I can't
>> unload due to dependencies) is not enough.
>
> Are you saying that this problem occurs always with wpa_supplicant and
> sometimes with iw?

I did some more testing and I can now reproduce this with iw as well. I
just need to reboot my laptop to reproduce it. I'll debug this more on a
rainy day.

-- 
Kalle Valo