Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-03-08T20:28:25Z

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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:34:04 EST, "John W. Linville" said:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:56:58PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:18:39 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc3/2.6.21-rc3-mm1/
> >
> > Mostly working for me.
> >
> > > - The wireless changes in here need a lot of testers, please. It is major
> > > rework.
> >
> > Working on it - the new MAC80211 stack landed in the -mm tree, but the matching
> > iwlwifi driver for the Intel 3945ABG is still out-of-tree and acting wonky
> > for me. The card comes up, 'iwlist scanning' sees 4 access points, but it
> > won't associate. Not sure what I borked up.
>
> FWIW, I have had best results w/ that driver by manually selecting
> the freq and ap as well as essid.

Confirmed - if I used 'iwconfig ap <mac address> channel <n>' to match something
I found via 'iwlist scan', it was able to associate and connect.

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