Re: 2.6.31-git wireless broken

[Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 15:15 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > a9a11622c5c742c115fad371c0397ae86dd3bb67 is first bad commit
> > commit a9a11622c5c742c115fad371c0397ae86dd3bb67
> > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> > Date:   Mon Jul 27 12:01:53 2009 +0200
> > 
> >     cfg80211: self-contained wext handling where possible
> 
> Heh, fun.
> 
> Well the problem appears to be that wpa_supplicant isn't getting started
> by your distro any more. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with opensuse.
> It seems it thinks the device isn't wireless but wired, since it starts
> ifplugd. OTOH maybe it wants ifplugd for wireless too? It's possible in
> theory.

No, ifplugd was my choice: IIRC, at some stage of installation you're
given a choice between traditional ifplugd and super new NetworkManager:
my choice has been ifplugd (after being somehow burnt by NetworkManager
once in the past).

> 
> I'm downloading a livecd to figure out what might be going wrong.

Thanks a lot for going to this trouble - though I do realize it's not
all just for me!  My guess is the LiveCD will favour NetworkManager
(if that turns out to make any difference).

> 
> Can you try running wpa_supplicant manually to make sure it's a problem
> in the distro/kernel interaction and not in wpa_supplicant/kernel?

Good idea: I just tried that, and things indeed then work fine.

Hugh