From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756048AbYKOXSc (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:18:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753484AbYKOXSW (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:18:22 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:41260 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752874AbYKOXSW (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:18:22 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: "Nico -telmich- Schottelius" Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc4: iwlagn / 5100 state Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:22:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: LKML , yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <20081114150508.GC4877@denkbrett.schottelius.org> In-Reply-To: <20081114150508.GC4877@denkbrett.schottelius.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811160022.43906.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Cc to linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org) On Friday, 14 of November 2008, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: > Hello! > > Using that kernel I see the following features / bugs: > > - loading the firmware "freezes" the system for a few seconds > - setting the link up of wlan0 "freezes" the system for a few seconds > - connecting to 802.11b/g works (802.11a is untested) > - roaming does *NOT* work -> just looses the AP, does not connect > to other AP with same essid > - connecting to a ap sometimes does not work, though essid is set > -> sometimes it helps to specify "ap " > -> sometimes setting down and up the link helps > -> with earlier kernels one sometimes needed to rmmod and insmod > the module again, so there is some progress :-) > > So far it is somehow usable, though the connection problems and missing > roaming is a bit painful.